rockaway

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And it is rockaway, rockaway, rockaway, that your speeding cradle goes,--rockaway, rockaway, rockaway, through the golden glories that lie in the path that leadeth to Shut-Eye Town Toot!

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  1. noun A four-wheeled carriage with two seats and a standing top.

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  • And it is rockaway, rockaway, rockaway, that your speeding cradle goes,--rockaway, rockaway, rockaway, through the golden glories that lie in the path that leadeth to Shut-Eye Town Toot! —  The Holy Cross and Other Tales
  • Going along quietly in the bright moonlit road, Rollo driving, Primrose suddenly asked a question Didn't you use to be a great waltzer, Duke A waltzer?--yes Then what made you not waltz to-night Rollo leaned back against one side of the rockaway, and answered, while the old horse walked leisurely on I have looked at the subject from a new point of view, Prim Have you?--From what point of view, Duke?' —  Wych Hazel
  • He stood aside to let the devotees put Wych Hazel into the little rockaway which was her sole present equipage; but when the last words had been said and the last man stepped back, Rollo stood at the door before Dingee had time to shut it Will you give me a seat as far as Mr. —  Wych Hazel
  • When I resumed my seat in the rockaway, Julius started the mare. —  Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
  • We took a little baggage and Gibson and came here--a dark drive, and we were shaken to bits in what is justly called a rockaway carriage. —  The British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : letters
 

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  1. Probably after Rockaway, a town of northern New Jersey.
 

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