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Definition of rocket

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Rocket (n.) An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display..

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Crocket :: Crocket (n.) An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc..

Rocketer :: Rocketer (n.) A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket..

Sea Rocket :: Sea rocket () See under Rocket.

Crocketed :: Crocketed (a.) Ornamented with crockets.

Star :: Star (n.) A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance..

Brocket :: Brocket (n.) A male red deer two years old; -- sometimes called brock.

Rocket :: Rocket (n.) A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.

Water Rocket :: Water rocket () A kind of firework to be discharged in the water.

Rocketing :: Rocketing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rocke.

Rocket :: Rocket (n.) Rocket larkspur. See below.

Drift :: Drift (n.) A tool used in driving down compactly the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework..

Stick :: Stick (v. t.) Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick..

Damewort :: Damewort (n.) A cruciferrous plant (Hesperis matronalis), remarkable for its fragrance, especially toward the close of the day; -- called also rocket and dame's violet..

Bombardment :: Bombardment (n.) An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place..

Firedrake :: Firedrake (n.) A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket.

Whelp :: Whelp (n.) One of the teeth of a sprocket wheel.

Rocket :: Rocket (n.) An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display..

Rocket :: Rocket (v. i.) To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.

Crocketing :: Crocketing (n.) Ornamentation with crockets.

Chain Wheel :: Chain wheel () A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel..