noun🔗ShareA curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth."The baby's cradle had smooth rockers that allowed Grandma to gently soothe him to sleep. "partarchitecturematerialbuildingitemChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA rocking chair."My grandmother's favorite chair is her old rockers. "itemutensilbuildingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe 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"sportnauticalsailingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe breve below as in ḫ."The diacritic mark that looks like little smileys, called rockers, can be found below certain letters in transliterations of Semitic languages, such as "ḫ". "languagelinguisticsphoneticswordgrammarChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareSomeone passionate about rock music."The concert was packed with rockers wearing band t-shirts and singing along to every song. "musicpersonentertainmentcultureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA musician who plays rock music."The concert featured a group of young rockers playing classic guitar riffs. "musicentertainmentpersonChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA rock music song."The radio station played a string of classic rockers all afternoon. "musicentertainmentChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareOne who rocks something."The rockers gently swayed the baby's cradle, helping him fall asleep. "musicentertainmentpersonChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA member of a British subculture of the 1960s, opposed to the mods, who dressed in black leather and were interested in 1950s music."In the 1960s, the rockers roared through British towns on their motorcycles, challenging the cleaner-cut mods. "culturemusicstylehistoryentertainmentChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAny implement or machine working with a rocking motion, such as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water."The gold miners used rockers to carefully wash away the dirt and gravel, leaving only the valuable gold dust behind. "machineutensiltechnologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA tool with small teeth that roughens a metal plate to produce tonality in mezzotints."The printmaker used a set of rockers to prepare the copper plate for the mezzotint, carefully roughening the surface to hold the ink. "artutensiltechnicalmachineChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA rocking horse."The little girl loved to play with her rockers in the nursery. "entertainmentitemanimalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA rocker board."The children enjoyed balancing on the rockers during gym class. "devicemachinethingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle."The old ice skates had rockers, making it hard to balance because the blades curved like the bottom of a rocking chair. "vehiclesportChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA rock shaft."The miners used the rockers to extract the ore from the shaft. "machineparttechnicalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading