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Definition of Rock

Rock See Roc. A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning. A large concreted mass of stony material; a large fixed stone or crag. See Stone. Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds. That which resembles a rock in firmness; a defense; a support; a refuge. Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock. The striped bass. See under Bass. To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter. To move as in a cradle; hence, to put to sleep by rocking; to still; to quiet. To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter. To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair. Related Definitions: About, Agitated, And, Any, Anything, Arranged, As, Backward, Bass, Be, Beneath, Body, By, Cause, Chair, Clay, Concreted, Consolidated, Cradle, Crag, Crust, Defense, Deposit, Disaster, Distaff, Drawn, Earth, Fig, Firmness, Fixed, Flax, Forming, Forward, Frame, From, Hence, In, Including, Is, Large, Mass, Material, Move, Moved, Natural, Not, Of, On, Or, Part, Put, Quiet, Reel, Refuge, Resembling, Resting, Roc, Rock, Rocking, Rocking-Chair, Roll, Sand, See, Sleep, Spinning, Staff, Still, Stone, Stony, Striped, Support, Sway, That, The, Thread, To, Totter, Under, Upon, Used, Vessel, Vibrate, Violently, When, Whether, Which, Wreck

Rock Quotations I always want to rock. Ron Wood I got rock in me. Shemar Moore Rock on out. Janis Joplin Just rock on, and have you a good time. Duane Allman Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. Kurt Cobain

Rock Translations rock in Afrikaans is rots rock in Danish is klippe rock in Dutch is balanceren, doen schommelen rock in Finnish is tuutia, kallio, keinuttaa rock in French is bercer, balancer, rupestre, rupestre, rocher, roc rock in German is Fels, Felsen rock in Italian is dondolare, masso, roccia rock in Latin is silex silicis (med. cilicis) rock in Norwegian is stein rock in Portuguese is rocha rock in Spanish is pe a, risco rock in Swedish is berg, gunga, vagga

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