rockaway

American  

[rok-uh-wey] / ˈrɒk əˌweɪ /

noun

1. a light, four-wheeled carriage having two or three seats and a fixed top.

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rockaway British  

/ ˈrɒkəˌweɪ /

noun

1. a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, usually with two seats and a hard top

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Etymology

Origin of rockaway

1835–45, apparently named after Rockaway, town in N New Jersey

Example Sentences

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rockaway

I looked out of the window, and saw an old-fashioned rockaway draw up beside the curbing.

From The Love Story of Abner Stone by Litsey, Edwin Carlile

At that moment we rounded a curve in the road, and in the hot dust ahead there came to view a heavy, old-fashioned rockaway drawn slowly by a pair of sunburned plow-horses.

From A Circuit Rider's Wife by Harris, Corra

I had ordered the set of harness sent with the rockaway.

From Diana by Warner, Susan

Mr. Sands, with Mr. Simmons's assistance, fitted the rockaway on to a pair of old sledge-runners, and, with many warm good-byes from the whole family, they drove off.

From A Round Dozen by Coolidge, Susan

Then I went back to the rockaway, but met Mrs. Sparrowgrass and the children on the road coming to meet me.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney