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rocker
(encz) | rocker,houpací křeslo n: slady |
rocker
(encz) | rocker,houpací kůň n: slady |
rocker
(encz) | rocker,kolébkový spínač n: slady |
rocker
(encz) | rocker,rocker n: Zdeněk Brož |
rocker
(encz) | rocker,vahadlo n: slady |
rocker
(czen) | rocker,rockern: Zdeněk Brož |
Rocker
(gcide) | Rocker \Rock"er\, n.
1. One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle.
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It was I, sir, said the rocker, who had the honor,
some thirty years since, to attend on your highness
in your infancy. --Fuller.
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2. One of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a
cradle, chair, etc., rocks.
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3. Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as
a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from
gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
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4. A play horse on rockers; a rocking-horse.
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5. A chair mounted on rockers; a rocking-chair.
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6. A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape
the rocker of a cradle.
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7. (Mach.) Same as Rock shaft.
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Rocker arm (Mach.), an arm borne by a rock shaft.
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rocker
(gcide) | Rock shaft \Rock" shaft`\ [Cf. Rock, v. i.] (Mach.)
A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of
revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it
receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the
valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker,
rocking shaft, and way shaft.
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rocker
(gcide) | Cradle \Cra"dle\ (kr[=a]d'l), n. [AS. cradel, cradol, prob. from
Celtic; cf. Gael. creathall, Ir. craidhal, W. cryd a shaking
or rocking, a cradle; perh. akin to E. crate.]
1. A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or
swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in
which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier
period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of
liberty.
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The cradle that received thee at thy birth.
--Cowper.
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No sooner was I crept out of my cradle
But I was made a king, at nine months old. --Shak.
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2. Infancy, or very early life.
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From their cradles bred together. --Shak.
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A form of worship in which they had been educated
from their cradles. --Clarendon.
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3. (Agric.) An implement consisting of a broad scythe for
cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the
scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it
evenly in a swath.
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4. (Engraving) A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by
a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the
plate, so preparing the ground.
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5. A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or
rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other
vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or
across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
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6. (Med.)
(a) A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
(b) A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the
person.
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7. (Mining)
(a) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous
earth; -- also called a rocker. [U.S.]
(b) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
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8. (Carp.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches
intended to be covered with plaster. --Knight.
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9. (Naut.) The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has
been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the
people are brought off from the wreck.
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Cat's cradle. See under Cat.
Cradle hole, a sunken place in a road, caused by thawing,
or by travel over a soft spot.
Cradle scythe, a broad scythe used in a cradle for cutting
grain.
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rocker
(wn) | rocker
n 1: an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle
2: a performer or composer or fan of rock music [syn: rocker,
rock 'n' roll musician]
3: a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather
jackets and rode motorcycles
4: a chair mounted on rockers [syn: rocking chair, rocker]
5: a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold
miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to
separate the gold [syn: rocker, cradle]
6: an ice skate with a curved blade
7: a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to
and fro |
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(encz) | crockery,nádobí |
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(encz) | off your rocker, |
platform rocker
(encz) | platform rocker, n: |
punk rocker
(encz) | punk rocker, |
rocker
(encz) | rocker,houpací křeslo n: sladyrocker,houpací kůň n: sladyrocker,kolébkový spínač n: sladyrocker,rocker n: Zdeněk Brožrocker,vahadlo n: slady |
rocker arm
(encz) | rocker arm, n: |
rockers
(encz) | rockers, n: |
rockery
(encz) | rockery,skalka n: Zdeněk Brožrockery,skalka (zahrádka) n: slady |
valve rocker
(encz) | valve rocker, n: |
rocker
(czen) | rocker,rockern: Zdeněk Brož |
Crocker
(gcide) | Crocker \Crock"er\ (-[~e]r), n.
A potter. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
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Crockery
(gcide) | Crockery \Crock"er*y\ ( kr?k"?r-?), n. [From Crock an earthen
vessel.]
Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the
coarser kinds.
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joe-rocker
(gcide) | Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), a. [Compar. Greener (gr[=e]n"[~e]r);
superl. Greenest.] [OE. grene, AS. gr[=e]ne; akin to D.
groen, OS. gr[=o]ni, OHG. gruoni, G. gr["u]n, Dan. & Sw.
gr["o]n, Icel. gr[ae]nn; fr. the root of E. grow. See
Grow.]
1. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing;
resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is
between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.
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2. Having a sickly color; wan.
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To look so green and pale. --Shak.
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3. Full of life and vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent;
as, a green manhood; a green wound.
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As valid against such an old and beneficent
government as against . . . the greenest usurpation.
--Burke.
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4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green
fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
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5. Not roasted; half raw. [R.]
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We say the meat is green when half roasted. --L.
Watts.
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6. Immature in age, judgment, or experience; inexperienced;
young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or
judgment.
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I might be angry with the officious zeal which
supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my
gray hairs. --Sir W.
Scott.
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7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as,
green wood, timber, etc. --Shak.
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8. (Politics) Concerned especially with protection of the
enviroment; -- of political parties and political
philosophies; as, the European green parties.
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Green brier (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub ({Emilaz
rotundifolia}) having a yellowish green stem and thick
leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the
United States; -- called also cat brier.
Green con (Zool.), the pollock.
Green crab (Zool.), an edible, shore crab ({Carcinus
menas}) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally
named joe-rocker.
Green crop, a crop used for food while in a growing or
unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root
crop, etc.
Green diallage. (Min.)
(a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene.
(b) Smaragdite.
Green dragon (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant
(Aris[ae]ma Dracontium), resembling the Indian turnip;
-- called also dragon root.
Green earth (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in
cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used
as a pigment by artists; -- called also mountain green.
Green ebony.
(a) A south American tree (Jacaranda ovalifolia), having
a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid
work, and in dyeing.
(b) The West Indian green ebony. See Ebony.
Green fire (Pyrotech.), a composition which burns with a
green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium
chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate),
to which the color of the flame is due.
Green fly (Zool.), any green species of plant lice or
aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants.
Green gage, (Bot.) See Greengage, in the Vocabulary.
Green gland (Zool.), one of a pair of large green glands in
Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have their
outlets at the bases of the larger antenn[ae].
Green hand, a novice. [Colloq.]
Green heart (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in
the West Indies and in South America, used for
shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and
Guiana is the Nectandra Rodi[oe]i, that of Martinique is
the Colubrina ferruginosa.
Green iron ore (Min.) dufrenite.
Green laver (Bot.), an edible seaweed (Ulva latissima);
-- called also green sloke.
Green lead ore (Min.), pyromorphite.
Green linnet (Zool.), the greenfinch.
Green looper (Zool.), the cankerworm.
Green marble (Min.), serpentine.
Green mineral, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment.
See Greengill.
Green monkey (Zool.) a West African long-tailed monkey
(Cercopithecus callitrichus), very commonly tamed, and
trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West
Indies early in the last century, and has become very
abundant there.
Green salt of Magnus (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline
salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides
of platinum.
Green sand (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while
slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made.
Green sea (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a
vessel's deck.
Green sickness (Med.), chlorosis.
Green snake (Zool.), one of two harmless American snakes
(Cyclophis vernalis, and C. [ae]stivus). They are
bright green in color.
Green turtle (Zool.), an edible marine turtle. See
Turtle.
Green vitriol.
(a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline
substance, very extensively used in the preparation of
inks, dyes, mordants, etc.
(b) (Min.) Same as copperas, melanterite and {sulphate
of iron}.
Green ware, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not
yet baked.
Green woodpecker (Zool.), a common European woodpecker
(Picus viridis); -- called also yaffle.
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rocker
(gcide) | Rocker \Rock"er\, n.
1. One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle.
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It was I, sir, said the rocker, who had the honor,
some thirty years since, to attend on your highness
in your infancy. --Fuller.
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2. One of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a
cradle, chair, etc., rocks.
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3. Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as
a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from
gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
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4. A play horse on rockers; a rocking-horse.
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5. A chair mounted on rockers; a rocking-chair.
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6. A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape
the rocker of a cradle.
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7. (Mach.) Same as Rock shaft.
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Rocker arm (Mach.), an arm borne by a rock shaft.
[1913 Webster]Rock shaft \Rock" shaft`\ [Cf. Rock, v. i.] (Mach.)
A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of
revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it
receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the
valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker,
rocking shaft, and way shaft.
[1913 Webster]Cradle \Cra"dle\ (kr[=a]d'l), n. [AS. cradel, cradol, prob. from
Celtic; cf. Gael. creathall, Ir. craidhal, W. cryd a shaking
or rocking, a cradle; perh. akin to E. crate.]
1. A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or
swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in
which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier
period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of
liberty.
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The cradle that received thee at thy birth.
--Cowper.
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No sooner was I crept out of my cradle
But I was made a king, at nine months old. --Shak.
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2. Infancy, or very early life.
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From their cradles bred together. --Shak.
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A form of worship in which they had been educated
from their cradles. --Clarendon.
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3. (Agric.) An implement consisting of a broad scythe for
cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the
scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it
evenly in a swath.
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4. (Engraving) A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by
a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the
plate, so preparing the ground.
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5. A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or
rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other
vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or
across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
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6. (Med.)
(a) A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
(b) A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the
person.
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7. (Mining)
(a) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous
earth; -- also called a rocker. [U.S.]
(b) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
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8. (Carp.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches
intended to be covered with plaster. --Knight.
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9. (Naut.) The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has
been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the
people are brought off from the wreck.
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Cat's cradle. See under Cat.
Cradle hole, a sunken place in a road, caused by thawing,
or by travel over a soft spot.
Cradle scythe, a broad scythe used in a cradle for cutting
grain.
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Rocker arm
(gcide) | Rocker \Rock"er\, n.
1. One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle.
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It was I, sir, said the rocker, who had the honor,
some thirty years since, to attend on your highness
in your infancy. --Fuller.
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2. One of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a
cradle, chair, etc., rocks.
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3. Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as
a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from
gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
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4. A play horse on rockers; a rocking-horse.
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5. A chair mounted on rockers; a rocking-chair.
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6. A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape
the rocker of a cradle.
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7. (Mach.) Same as Rock shaft.
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Rocker arm (Mach.), an arm borne by a rock shaft.
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Rockered
(gcide) | Rockered \Rock"ered\, a. (Naut.)
Shaped like a rocker; curved; as, a rockered keel.
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Rockery
(gcide) | Rockery \Rock"er*y\, n. (Gardening)
A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set
with plants.
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boston rocker
(wn) | Boston rocker
n 1: a rocking chair that has a high spindle back and a
decorative top panel |
crockery
(wn) | crockery
n 1: tableware (eating and serving dishes) collectively [syn:
crockery, dishware] |
platform rocker
(wn) | platform rocker
n 1: rocking chair on a stationary base |
punk rocker
(wn) | punk rocker
n 1: a teenager or young adult who is a performer (or
enthusiast) of punk rock and a member of the punk youth
subculture [syn: punk rocker, punk] |
rocker
(wn) | rocker
n 1: an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle
2: a performer or composer or fan of rock music [syn: rocker,
rock 'n' roll musician]
3: a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather
jackets and rode motorcycles
4: a chair mounted on rockers [syn: rocking chair, rocker]
5: a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold
miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to
separate the gold [syn: rocker, cradle]
6: an ice skate with a curved blade
7: a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to
and fro |
rocker arm
(wn) | rocker arm
n 1: a lever pivoted at the center; used especially to push a
valve down in an internal-combustion engine [syn: {rocker
arm}, valve rocker] |
rockers
(wn) | rockers
n 1: originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of
the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and
jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and
listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual
laborers [syn: rockers, bikers] |
rockery
(wn) | rockery
n 1: a garden featuring rocks; usually alpine plants [syn: {rock
garden}, rockery] |
valve rocker
(wn) | valve rocker
n 1: a lever pivoted at the center; used especially to push a
valve down in an internal-combustion engine [syn: {rocker
arm}, valve rocker] |
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