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rocking chair

noun

  1. a chair mounted on rockers or springs so as to permit a person to rock back and forth while sitting.


rocking chair

noun

  1. a chair set on curving supports so that the sitter may rock backwards and forwards
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of rocking chair1

An Americanism dating back to 1750–60
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Example Sentences

In January 2018, her son, standing by the rocking chair in her bedroom, explained that his teenage cousin had taught him a “game.”

The exception was the wrap-around front porch, lined with rocking chairs, which had a gray floor and ceiling along with knob and tube wiring.

The ergonomically designed rocking chairs provide comfort and support, and the sponge cushions—offered in brown, gray, and red—are waterproof and fade-resistant.

She’d barely settled into her wooden rocking chair when her phone rang.

When I woke up, it was 11:30 at night, and I saw an old lady in a rocking chair.

The last two presidential elections were gather-your-grandchildren-around-the-rocking-chair material.

There was a very audible titter in the corner where three thoughtless young girls had squeezed themselves into one rocking-chair.

By this time the bent figure sitting in the rocking-chair, near the coffin began to show signs of life and whimper a little.

Finally, her labors over, she dusted an aged rocking-chair and sat down, fanning herself with her hat.

Presently she sat down on a Bentwood rocking-chair and swayed to and fro, aware of an ebbing of confidence.

The next moment her astonishment changed to anger, for there, in her best rocking-chair, sat a Green Monkey.

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