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"ref": "1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 30",
"text": "The cradle-rockers had done hard duty for so many years, under the weight of so many children, on that flagstone floor, that they were worn nearly flat, in consequence of which a huge jerk accompanied each swing of the cot, flinging the baby from side to side like a weaver's shuttle, as Mrs Durbeyfield, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all the spring that was left in her after a long day's seething in the suds.",
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"ref": "2021, “Buy Dirt”, in Buy Dirt, performed by Jordan Davis",
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"sense": "Hence, a rocking chair",
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"text": "All modern surfboards share a similar rocker design — Bruce Jones https://web.archive.org/web/20051212041317/http://www.brucejones.com/longboar.htm"
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"ref": "1984, Matthew Wolfgang Stolper, Texts from Tall-i Malyan Elamite Administrative Texts (1972–1974) (Occasional Publications of the Babylonian Fund; 6), University of Pennsylvania Press, page XVII",
"text": "Like the editors of other Elamite texts, I omit the diacritic rocker from h in Elamite and from H in logograms in Elamite texts. I retain the rocker in ḫ and Ḫ in Sumerian and Akkadian.",
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"ref": "2011, Theo van den Hout, The Elements of Hittite, Cambridge University Press, page 13",
"text": "Although the exact sound value of s remains uncertain, and there is only one such sibiliant in Hittite, it is traditionally transliterated with a so-called haček: š. This should not be taken, however, as evidence that it was a palatal sound (as sh in show). The same is true for the traditional “rocker” under the laryngeal ḫ: there is no other h-sign, and the diacritic is not strictly necessary.",
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"ref": "2019, John Huehnergard, “Proto-Semitic”, in Huehnergard, John and Na'ama Pat-El, editors, The Semitic Languages, 2nd edition, Routledge, page 15",
"text": "Semitistic transliteration systems […] a number of features are common to most of them: […] ḫ (“h” with a “rocker,” conventionally called “hooked h”) for the voiceless velar/uvular fricative, IPA [x]/[χ], […]",
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"ref": "September 2010, Pitchfork Media, The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s https://web.archive.org/web/20110218044518/http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7852-the-top-200-tracks-of-the-1990s-50-21/3",
"text": "\"Girls & Boys\" is […] also a tart, sneering rocker, full of ingenious musical gestures […]"
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"tags": [
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "musician who plays rock music",
"word": "rokkari"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "musician who plays rock music",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rockeur"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "musician who plays rock music",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rockeuse"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "musician who plays rock music",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Rocker"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "musician who plays rock music",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Rockerin"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "musician who plays rock music",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Rockmusiker"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "musician who plays rock music",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Rockmusikerin"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "musician who plays rock music",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "roqueiro"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "musician who plays rock music",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "roqueira"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "musician who plays rock music",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "roquero"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "musician who plays rock music",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "roquera"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "musician who plays rock music",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rockero"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "musician who plays rock music",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rockera"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "musician who plays rock music",
"word": "rockçı"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Someone passionate about rock music",
"word": "rokkari"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Someone passionate about rock music",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Rocker"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Someone passionate about rock music",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Rockerin"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "rokás",
"sense": "Someone passionate about rock music",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ροκάς"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Someone passionate about rock music",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "roqueiro"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Someone passionate about rock music",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "roqueira"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "róker",
"sense": "Someone passionate about rock music",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ро́кер"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Someone passionate about rock music",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "roquero"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Someone passionate about rock music",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "roquera"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Someone passionate about rock music",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rockero"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Someone passionate about rock music",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "rockera"
}
],
"word": "rocker"
}
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