rockers

Noun

rocker (plural rockers)

1. A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
   • The cradle-rockers had done hard duty for so many years, under the weight of so many children, on that flagstone floor, that they were worn nearly flat, in consequence of which a huge jerk accompanied each swing of the cot, flinging the baby from side to side like a weaver's shuttle, as Mrs...1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 30
2. A rocking chair.
   • A few days before he turned 80
     He was sittin' out back in a rocker2021, “Buy Dirt”, in Buy Dirt, performed by Jordan Davis
3. The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)
   • All modern surfboards share a similar rocker design — Bruce Jones https://web.archive.org/web/20051212041317/http://www.brucejones.com/longboar.htm
4. The breve below as in ḫ.
   • Like the editors of other Elamite texts, I omit the diacritic rocker from h in Elamite and from H in logograms in Elamite texts. I retain the rocker in ḫ and Ḫ in Sumerian and Akkadian.1984, Matthew Wolfgang Stolper, Texts from Tall-i Malyan Elamite Administrative Texts (1972–1974) (Occasional Publications of the Babylonian Fund; 6), University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page...
5. Someone passionate about rock music.
6. A musician who plays rock music.

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