rocker

Meanings

Plural: rockers

Noun

• an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle
• a performer or composer or fan of rock music
• a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles
• a chair mounted on rockers
• a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold
• an ice skate with a curved blade
• a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro
• A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
• A rocking chair.
• The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)
• The breve below as in ḫ.
• Someone passionate about rock music.
• A musician who plays rock music.
• A rock music song.
• One who rocks something.
• A member of a British subculture of the 1960s, opposed to the mods, who dressed in black leather and were interested in 1950s music.
• Any 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.
• A tool with small teeth that roughens a metal plate to produce tonality in mezzotints.
• A rocking horse.
• A rocker board.
• A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
• A kind of electrical switch with a spring-loaded actuator.
• A rock shaft.
• A curved line accompanying the chevrons that denote rank, qualifying the rank with a grade.

Synonyms

cradle, rock 'n' roll musician, rocking chair