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n.
the practice of using a rocker.
See: rocker ((1))
Quotations
1859
In proof of the latter the lowest sum named by any miner as the product of a day's rocking is three to five dollars, for nearly two hundred miles along Fraser river.
1900
There are quite a few Chinamen all along the river who make a few dollars rocking.
1936
We could always get enough water to operate two or three "rockers" but when our claims were being worked on a fairly large scale the rocking system could no longer be economically applied.