rocking chair

noun

a chair mounted on rockers or springs so as to permit a person to rock back and forth while sitting.

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Also called rocker.

Origin:
1750–60, Americanism

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rocking chair

—n
	a chair set on curving supports so that the sitter may rock backwards and forwards

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