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rocking chair
noun
- a chair mounted on rockers or springs so as to permit a person to rock back and forth while sitting.
rocking chair
noun
- a chair set on curving supports so that the sitter may rock backwards and forwards
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rocking chair1
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Example Sentences
When I woke up, it was 11:30 at night, and I saw an old lady in a rocking chair.
The last two presidential elections were gather-your-grandchildren-around-the-rocking-chair material.
There was a very audible titter in the corner where three thoughtless young girls had squeezed themselves into one rocking-chair.
By this time the bent figure sitting in the rocking-chair, near the coffin began to show signs of life and whimper a little.
Finally, her labors over, she dusted an aged rocking-chair and sat down, fanning herself with her hat.
Presently she sat down on a Bentwood rocking-chair and swayed to and fro, aware of an ebbing of confidence.
The next moment her astonishment changed to anger, for there, in her best rocking-chair, sat a Green Monkey.
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