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I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.
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Meaning of "rocking horse" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ROCKING HORSE

rocking horse play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROCKING HORSE

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Rocking horse is a noun.
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WHAT DOES ROCKING HORSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

rocking horse

Rocking horse

A rocking horse is a child's toy, usually shaped like a horse and mounted on rockers similar to a rocking chair. Predecessors of the rocking horse may be seen in the rocking cradle, the tilting seats used during the Middle Ages for jousting practice as well as the wheeled hobby horse. The toy in its current form did not appear before the 17th century, though some conflicting sources note medieval manuscripts including references to carved rocking horses, presumably of the toy kind. From the 19th century onward rocking horses became more commonly considered as child's toy. Mostly built by hobby woodcrafters, and ranging from relatively crude to finely ornamented and the toys of future kings, it was not until the late 19th century that the production became industrialised. There are two sorts, the one where the horse part sits rigidly attached to a par of curved rockers that are in contact with the ground, and a second sort, where the horse hangs on a rigid frame by iron straps the horse moves only relative to the frame, which does not move.

Definition of rocking horse in the English dictionary

The definition of rocking horse in the dictionary is a toy horse mounted on a pair of rockers on which a child can rock to and fro in a seesaw movement.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ROCKING HORSE

rockhopper
rockhound
rockier
Rockies
rockiest
rockily
rockiness
rocking
rocking chair
rocking stone
Rockingham
rockingly
rockless
rocklike
rockling
rocknroller
rockoon
rockrose
rocks
rockshaft

WORDS THAT END LIKE ROCKING HORSE

clotheshorse
cutting horse
dark horse
flog a dead horse
for the worse
gift horse
horse
iron horse
light horse
put the cart before the horse
quarter horse
racehorse
sawhorse
sea horse
seahorse
shire horse
to get off your high horse
white horse
Whitehorse
wild horse
workhorse

Synonyms and antonyms of rocking horse in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «rocking horse» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ROCKING HORSE

Find out the translation of rocking horse to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rocking horse from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rocking horse» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

摇摆木马
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

balancín
570 millions of speakers

English

rocking horse
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

घुड़दौड़ का घोड़ा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حِصَانٌ خَشَبِيٌّ هَزَّاز
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

конь-качалка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cavalo de balanço
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দোলান - ঘোড়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cheval à bascule
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kuda goyang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schaukelpferd
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

揺り木馬
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

흔들목마
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nggodhok jaran
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngựa gỗ bập bênh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ராக்கிங் குதிரை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कमाल घडणारा घोडा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sallanan at
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cavallo a dondolo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

koń na biegunach
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

коник-гойдалка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cal de lemn
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ξύλινο κουνιστό αλογάκι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rocking horse
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

gunghäst
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gyngehest
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rocking horse

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rocking horse

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Diane Lane
I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROCKING HORSE»

Discover the use of rocking horse in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rocking horse and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader
A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader is a selection of the writings of a modern Catholic laywomen and mystic, with a biographical introduction by the editor, Marie Anne Mayeski.
Caryll Houselander, Marie Anne Mayeski, 1991
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The Rocking-Horse Winner
A boy growing up in a household where there is no love and no luck but always a shortage of money develops an uncanny ability to pick horse-race winners while furiously riding his wooden rocking-horse.
D H Lawrence, 1966
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Rocking Horse Christmas
A boy gets a rocking horse for Christmas that takes him to faraway places.
Mary Pope Osborne, 2004
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Rocking Horse War
One sunny morning the triplets disappear, leaving only a few mysterious clues behind: an open upstairs window, three missing rocking horses and some strangely shaped marks on the lawn outside.
Lari Don, 2010
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The Rocking Horse
Jenny Preston has been missing for twenty-two years after being taken at the age of two on the very night her mother, anut, and uncle were brutally, senselessly murdered.
Gloria Zachgo, 2011
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Rocky the Rocking Horse
The story of Rocky the Rocking horse is about the love of a rocking horse and his boy Manuel. As Manuel gets older and has to go to school Rocky gets put in the attic. See what happens when Poppa Virgil brings him downstairs again.
Sue Grandma, 2010
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Rocking Horse Ranch: A Novel
After a new love walked into her life and the relationship with her half sister was rekindled in Before the Music, Marie Claire thought life would slow down enough to start Rocking Horse Ranch, a dude ranch for handicapped children.
Marie Claire Peck, 2011
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Rocking-horse land
Prince Freedling loves the rocking horse he gets for his fifth birthday, but the creature becomes real every night and wants to be set free.
Laurence Housman, 1990
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The Rocking-Horse Maker: Nine Easy-To Follow Projects
A comprehensive and practical manual which shows that with a little care, patience and some basic woodworking skills, anyone can make a traditional rocking horse.
Anthony Dew, 1997
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Three Models on a Rocking-horse: A Comparative Study in ...
Appendices 7.1. <The Rocking-Horse Winner > by D.H. Lawrence (Text) The text has been copied from the Penguin edition of D.H. Lawrence's Selected Short Stories, edited, with an introduction and notes, by Brian Finney, 1982: pp. 444- 457.
Cornelius J. Bucher, 1990

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROCKING HORSE»

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Google puts on online display children's book 'The Rocking Horse'
Google has put on online exhibit The Rocking Horse, a critically-acclaimed children's book featuring the paintings and story of Filipinos Elmer Borlongan and ... «GMA News, Jul 15»
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Woman hit by falling wooden rocking horse in Temple Bar tells of …
AN ENGLISH WOMAN has spoken about how she is still frightened after being hit by a falling wooden rocking horse that came from a second-storey window in ... «thejournal.ie, Jun 15»
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Grandmother hit by a rocking horse that was thrown out of a window …
Her cousin Julie Beaumont, 45, said: 'The paramedic said that, in 15 years doing the job, he'd never seen an injury like that caused by a rocking horse.'. «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
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Rocking Horse Ranch's Rocking Barn Makeover competing for …
A therapeutic horse ranch in Pitt County is one of 200 finalists across the ... Neighborhood Assist program, and it could help the Rocking Horse Ranch in Pitt ... «WITN, May 15»
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Village shock as rocking horse Pete stolen from pre-school in …
The horse, named 'Pete the Painted Pony', was stolen from outside Debenham Roundabout Pre-school on School Corner, between 6am on Friday, April 17 and ... «East Anglian Daily Times, Apr 15»
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Gift Horse sculpture trots onto Fourth Plinth
Gift Horse, a skeletal sculpture which displays a live feed from the London Stock ... Powerless Structures, Fig 101 - a sculpture of a boy astride his rocking horse. «BBC News, Mar 15»
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Collecting turns into rocking horse business
HORSE LOVERS: Round Yard Rocking Horses owners Debbie and David ... they have many customers just as passionate about rocking horses as they are. «Gladstone Observer, Jan 15»
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Giant rocking horse on display at Quincy Mall
A nearly 15 foot giant rocking horse is stationed in the mall right outside of the JCPenney store. Mall officials say the rocking horse will be there through the ... «WGEM, Dec 14»
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RAF reunion prompts rocking horse gift
RAF reunion prompts rocking horse gift ... A REUNION with a former RAF comrade prompted an octogenarian to donate a rocking horse to a cathedral. «The Northern Echo, Nov 14»
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Rocking horse becomes Trojan horse for cocaine smuggler
Federal authorities said they stopped an effort over the weekend to smuggle 29 pounds of cocaine into the U.S. that were hidden in two wooden rocking horses. «Washington Times, Aug 14»

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