Word Meanings - ROCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ROCK)

• Roll
• Revolve
• wheel
• rotate
• rock
• trundle wallow

Related words: (words related to ROCK)

• REVOLVE
  1. To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense. If the earth revolve thus, each house pear the equator must move a thousand miles an hour. I. Watts. 2. To move in a curved
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• WALLOW
  1. To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire. I may wallow in the lily beds. Shak. 2. To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self
• WHEELBIRD
  The European goatsucker.
• REVOLVENCY
  The act or state of revolving; revolution. Its own revolvency upholds the world. Cowper.
• WHEEL OF FORTUNE
  A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
• ROTATE
  1. To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle. 2. To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office. "Both, after a brief service, were rotated out of office." Harper's
• TRUNDLETAIL
  A round or curled-up tail; also, a dog with such a tail. Shak.
• WHEELWRIGHT
  A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.
• WHEELED
  Having wheels; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a four- wheeled carriage.
• WHEELBARROW
  A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
• WHEELWORK
  A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism.
• WHEELING
  1. The act of conveying anything, or traveling, on wheels, or in a wheeled vehicle. 2. The act or practice of using a cycle; cycling. 3. Condition of a road or roads, which admits of passing on wheels; as, it is good wheeling, or bad wheeling.
• TRUNDLE
  1. A round body; a little wheel. 2. A lind of low-wheeled cart; a truck. 3. A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion. A lantern wheel. See under Lantern. One of the bars of a lantern wheel.
• WHEELBAND
  The tire of a wheel.
• TRUNDLEHEAD
  One of the disks forming the ends of a lantern wheel or pinion. 2. The drumhead of a capstan; especially, the drumhead of the lower of two capstans on the sane axis.
• WHEELER
  A steam vessel propelled by a paddle wheel or by paddle wheels; -- used chiefly in the terms side-wheeler and stern-wheeler. 5. A worker on sewed muslin. (more info) 1. One who wheels, or turns. 2. A maker of wheels; a wheelwright. 3.
• WHEELSWARF
  See SWARF
• WHEEL-WORN
  Worn by the action of wheels; as, a wheel-worn road.
• WHEELHOUSE
  A small house on or above a vessel's deck, containing the steering wheel. A paddle box. See under Paddle.
• CATHERINE WHEEL
  See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her
• FOUR-WHEELER
  A vehicle having four wheels.
• PELTON WHEEL
  A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• BREASTWHEEL
  A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on
• FUDGE WHEEL
  A tool for ornamenting the edge of a sole.
• ARTILLERY WHEEL
  A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.
• WHEEL
  A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases. The burden or refrain of a song. Note: "This meaning has a low degree of authority, but is supposed from the context in the few cases where the
• STREAM WHEEL
  A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.
• SEA SWALLOW
  See CHOUGH (more info) The common tern. The storm petrel. The gannet.
• WATER WHEEL
  1. Any wheel for propelling machinery or for other purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water; -- called an overshot wheel when the water is applied at the top, an undershot wheel when at the bottom, a breast wheel when at an
• ENWALLOW
  To plunge into, or roll in, flith; to wallow. So now all three one senseless lump remain, Enwallowed in his own black bloody gore. Spenser.
• COUNT-WHEEL
  The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.