Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc.
The rockers are somewhat rough, as though a farmer's plane had fashioned them, and the sides just high enough for a child to learn to walk by.
The crackle of the rockersis pleasant yet in my ears.
Why not move Joshua Stillman's wonderful library out of the little dark room into which it was packed and spread it out in a big sunny place, with comfortable chairs and rockers and a couple of nice long reading tables?
Rockers can be made by cutting curved pieces 1/4 inch wide out of thick cardboard, although such a cradle will rock without rockers.
Rockers can be drawn, added to the feet, and cut out, thus making a rocking chair.
The rockers on the veranda stopped their rocking, stopped their talking, stopped their breathing to see Sheila pass.
Then don't you approve of a rocking-chair, and of rockers to the cradle?
There was only the sound of the rockerson the floor.
The mother began to rock, he heard the slight crunch of the rockers of the chair.
The noble Lord,' replied Mr. Haldane, 'is doubtless alluding to certain dummy horses on rockerswhich have been tested with very satisfactory results.
Five miles above the Forks some twenty white men were at work, making with common rockers from ten to sixteen dollars per day.
Mrs. Derrick sighed again, and leaned back in her chair, and rocked; the rockers creaking in rather doleful sympathy with her thoughts.
With his stubby little shoes drawn up under him, and his soft bobbed hair flapping over his ears every time the rockers tilted forward, he sat all alone in the sitting-room behind the shop, waiting and rocking.
He used to sit in front of the fire sometimes, just as he had done at the Junction, rocking and singing, his soft bobbed hair flapping over his ears every time the rockers tilted forward.
Miss Dunord went, rejoicing and thankful to be returning to France, and the other three rockers remained.
Her companion rockers were of an inferior grade to herself.
In such instances rockersmay be usefully employed.
Both sit in the rockers before the stove and are deep in reminiscences when Mary enters left door.
Remember that thing with the two rockers we saw at the Hermit's Hut in the Hollow?
But here all was spaciousness, and even the side streets had three stories and smug porches with tidy rockers and bay windows.
No plush rockers of the newest patent; no chenille curtains; no art chromos; no hat-racks, not even an imitation bronze mantle clock guarded by its mailed warrior.
Maybe he is wild for a phonograph and a Ford and golden oak rockers of his own in the parlor, and photographs enlarged in crayon hanging on the walls--and a steady job.
In the examples illustrated the slight variation in these rockers will be observed.
Nursing Chair on rockers and an ordinary Spindle-Back Chair, are of eighteenth-century days, and are sufficient to indicate the type of chair, but these two represent the style when it had become of more general use.
Hundreds of rockers were swept away, and one man below the island took out forty that had found a harbour in an eddy near which he was at work.
The most natural and direct way would have been to put the earth in buckets, carry it down to the river, and wash it there in small rockers as we had done before.
I guess the public kinder sickened o' them art-rockers an' dinky books without much printin' into them.
But the talkers are talking and Art Nouveau rockers are rocking, and the trousers of the prophet are patched with stained glass, and it is a day of dinkiness and of thumbs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rockers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
