Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A chair mounted upon rockers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A chair mounted on rockers, in which one may rock.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a chair mounted on rockers
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Examples
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He avoided them and passed down the porch, but they cornered him against a rocking-chair and the railing.
The Call of Kind 2010
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The rest of the album is rocking-chair pleasant, assuming that rocking chair is in a bedroom and not on a front porch.
Really quick spins: Sic Alps, Disappears, Thank You, Minks, Ducktails, Young Prisms David Malitz 2011
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THEN he built in a roof-window just outside my room where he put the telescope next to a bookshelf with a rocking-chair.
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You're sitting by a crackling fire (a fake one, of course, since wood-burning fireplaces were outlawed a decade ago) in your favorite antique rocking-chair with a grandchild snuggled up in your lap.
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You're sitting by a crackling fire (a fake one, of course, since wood-burning fireplaces were outlawed a decade ago) in your favorite antique rocking-chair with a grandchild snuggled up in your lap.
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Gottman found that all couples -- those who are happily married into their rocking-chair years and those who divorce before they hit their fifth anniversary -- disagree more or less the same amount.
The Marriage Myth: Why do so many couples divorce? Maybe they just don't know how to be married. 2010
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Gottman found that all couples -- those who are happily married into their rocking-chair years and those who divorce before they hit their fifth anniversary -- disagree more or less the same amount.
The Marriage Myth: Why do so many couples divorce? Maybe they just don't know how to be married. 2010
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Ed M, another "rocking-chair veteran," also shared Mike's faith in matrimony.
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008
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Gottman found that all couples -- those who are happily married into their rocking-chair years and those who divorce before they hit their fifth anniversary -- disagree more or less the same amount.
The Marriage Myth: Why do so many couples divorce? Maybe they just don't know how to be married. 2010
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Gottman found that all couples -- those who are happily married into their rocking-chair years and those who divorce before they hit their fifth anniversary -- disagree more or less the same amount.
The Marriage Myth: Why do so many couples divorce? Maybe they just don't know how to be married. 2010
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