Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rocket engine.
- noun A vehicle or device propelled by one or more rocket engines, especially such a vehicle designed to travel through space.
- noun A projectile weapon carrying a warhead that is powered and propelled by rockets.
- noun A projectile firework having a cylindrical shape and a fuse that is lit from the rear.
- intransitive verb To move swiftly and powerfully, as a rocket
- intransitive verb To fly swiftly straight up, as a game bird frightened from cover.
- intransitive verb To soar or rise rapidly.
- intransitive verb To carry by means of a rocket.
- intransitive verb To assault with rockets.
- noun Any of several plants of the mustard family, especially the dame's rocket and the sea rocket.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Italian rocchetta, diminutive of rocca, spindle, distaff, of Germanic origin.]
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English rokette, from Old French roquete, from Italian rochetta, variant of ruchetta, diminutive of ruca, arugula, from Latin ērūca.]
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