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rock up

verb

  1. informal.
    intr, adverb to arrive late or unannounced


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But for a while we were like Sisyphus pushing that rock up the mountain.

“I suppose you know every rock up here,” said Johnny, as they went scrambling up and up, over an all but perpendicular trail.

Upon this we told him of the niches in the rock up above, which we supposed to have been receptacles for bridge-stringers.

The rafters show overhead, and the floors rock up and down when you walk hard on them, just because they are so old.

I think, lieutenant, you had better leave them where they are; we are holding this rock up pretty hard.

The nail, N, runs through both uprights, and acts as the bearing for F to rock up and down upon.

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