rockaway

American  

[rok-uh-wey] / ˈrɒk əˌweɪ /

noun

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

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rockaway British  

/ ˈrɒkəˌweɪ /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of rockaway

1835–45, apparently named after Rockaway, town in N New Jersey

Example Sentences

So before the hour for the second service came, they stole quietly away, their rockaway wheels cutting the trail left by the erring young people who had gone before them.

From Clover and Blue Grass by Hall, Eliza Calvert

She had left a man in charge of the rockaway.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

Then he climbed into the rockaway again, and stood up to see if he could anywhere see the light of a house.

From A Round Dozen by Coolidge, Susan

Many business men would go to the city driving a rockaway with a single horse.

From Fifth Avenue by Maurice, Arthur Bartlett

A two-horse rockaway hove in sight, drew up and stopped at the outer limits of the Courthouse yard.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett