Rocking-chair

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• Rocking

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Rock>>. II. Rocking ·adj Having a swaying, rolling, or back-and-forth movement...

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• Chair

  ·vt To place in a chair. II. Chair ·noun A movable single seat with a back. III. Chair ·vt To carr...

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• chair

  In the Southern Stares, this name is given to that kind of one-horse pleasure carriage, which, in th...

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• Rocking-horse

  ·noun The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride. ...

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• Rocking-stone

  ·noun A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised tha...

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• Easy-chair

  ·noun An armchair for ease or repose. ...

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• Morris-chair

  ·add. ·noun A kind of easy-chair with a back which may be lowered or raised. ...

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• barber's chair

  She is as common as a barber's chair, in which a whole parish sit to be trimmed; said of a prostitut...

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