rockaway

rock·a·way

(rŏk′ə-wā′)

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

[Probably after Rockaway, a town of northern New Jersey.]

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

rockaway

(ˈrɒkəˌweɪ)

US a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, usually with two seats and a hard top

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

rock•a•way

(ˈrɒk əˌweɪ)

n.

a light four-wheeled carriage having two or three seats and a fixed top.

[1835–45, Amer.; appar. after Rockaway, town in N New Jersey]

Mentioned in ?

carriage

References in classic literature ?

Pontellier was up in good time to take the rockaway which was to convey him to the steamer at the wharf.

His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.

View in context

Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, which he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach?

View in context

Rockaway, NJ, July 08, 2019 --(PR.com)-- A day-long prayer and worship festival for the nation and world.

Christ Church's Largest Annual Gathering Welcomes Thousands for Prayerfest 2019

5 April 2019 - US-based life sciences supplier Masy BioServices has acquired calibration services provider Metrology Laboratories Inc., located in Rockaway, New Jersey, the company said.

Masy BioServices Acquires Calibration Services Provider Metrology Laboratories

The has-been Far Rockaway strip mall in Queens has been demolished to make way for a large-scale mixed-use affordable housing development.

Bulldozers make space for Rockaway homes

JLL Capital Markets announced it arranged a $10 million loan to refinance Rockaway Commons, a multi-tenant shopping center located at 204-212 Route 46 in Rockaway.

JLL secures $10M loan for Rockaway Commons in Morris County

Manhattan-based Feil Organization is building a 260,000-square-foot rental complex that will bring 230 apartments to a 5.19-acre site at 2930 Rockaway Ave.

$60M Oceanside rental project gets county support

WASHINGTON: Fannie Mae will give a $26 million LIHTC equity investment to facilitate the construction of Far Rockaway Village, a 457 unit residential development in the downtown Far Rockaway area of Queens, New York.

Fannie Mae to give $26 million LIHTC equity investment to Far Rockaway Village

Each Passover, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, my family would traipse from our home in New Haven to my grandparents' house in Far Rockaway, New York.

After My Family's Raucous Passover Meals, We Used to Escape to the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Far Rockaway, Brooklyn

The project will provide 394.1 MMcf/d of firm natural gas transportation capacity from Transco's Compressor Station 195 in York County, PA to the Rockaway Transfer Point, an existing interconnection between the Lower New York Bay Lateral and the Rockaway Delivery Lateral in offshore New York.