Index of English words, starting with "ro"

(1) - Rock (v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair.
(2) - Rock (v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.
(3) - Rock (v. t.) To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet.
(4) - Rock (v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter.
(5) - Rock (n.) The striped bass. See under Bass.
(6) - Rock (n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.
(7) - Rock (n.) That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge.
(8) - Rock (n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds.
(9) - Rock (n.) A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone.
(10) - Rock (n.) A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.
(11) - Rock (n.) See Roc.

(1) - Rockaway () Formerly, a light, low, four-wheeled carriage, with standing top, open at the sides, but having waterproof curtains which could be let down when occasion required; now, a somewhat similar, but heavier, carriage, inclosed, except in front, and having a door at each side.