单词 | on rockers |
释义 | > as lemmason rockers 3. A curved bar (usually one of a pair) or similar support on which something such as a chair or cradle can rock. Usually in plural. Frequently in on rockers. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [noun] > rocking > rocker on cradle or chair rocker1760 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > parts of furniture generally > curved surface to enable rocking rocker1760 1760 E. Smith Acct. Bk. in Dict. Amer. Eng. (at cited word) Pair of rockers on a cradle 5/. 1787 M. Cutler Jrnl. 13 July in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 269 He also showed us..his great arm chair, with rockers. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §80 In some degree rounding, like the Rockers of a cradle. 1827 C. M. Sedgwick Hope Leslie II. v. 102 ‘Help me out with mother's rocking-chair—rather rough rocking,’ he added as he adjusted the rockers lengthwise with the logs that served for the flooring. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. i. 3 The very basket that you slept in..the very rockers that I put it upon to make a cradle of it. 1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 478 A light frame on rockers, upon which the developing dish rests. 1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xliii. 854 The material is washed in a ‘pan’ or ‘cradle’ consisting of an inclined trough mounted on rockers. 1961 Times 13 Nov. 13/2 (advt.) A lovely cot on rockers. 1972 G. Rabassa tr. G. G. Márquez Leaf Storm & Other Stories 124 The rockers on her chair had worn out after eleven years of widowhood. 2003 S. Goodwin Breaking her Fall 339 The only thing in it was the cradle—god, that little cradle with the rockers. < as lemmas |
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