0 to rock a baby (= to move it backwards and forwards or from side to side in a regular way) to help it to sleep: --
a well-known lullaby called "Rockabye Baby"
The Czech word for a lullaby is derived from the verb kolébat, meaning to rock-a-bye.
1 used to describe the action of rocking a baby to sleep, or something that relates to this: --
He was holding a big plank of wood in his arms rock-a-bye style.
She put out her elbows and swung them in a rockabye motion.
I put the baby in his rock-a-by seat.
"Rock-a-bye, baby, on the tree top," she sang softly.
They sang a children's song called "Rock-a-bye your teddy bear".
NYA ORD
European
May 10, 2021
DAGENS ORD
Shimmer
rock-a-bye
