rocking chair


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

Origin of rocking chair

1
An Americanism dating back to 1750–60

Words Nearby rocking chair

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How to use rocking chair in a sentence

  • Presently she sat down on a Bentwood rocking-chair and swayed to and fro, aware of an ebbing of confidence.

    Hilda | Sarah Jeanette Duncan
  • The next moment her astonishment changed to anger, for there, in her best rocking-chair, sat a Green Monkey.

    The Tin Woodman of Oz | L. Frank Baum

British Dictionary definitions for rocking chair

rocking chair

noun
  1. a chair set on curving supports so that the sitter may rock backwards and forwards

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