English Explanatory Dictionary

Rockite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of an agrarian rebel group active in the south-west of Ireland from 1821 to 1824, whose figurehead was the mythical folk hero Captain Rock.

Word forms

Rockite Rockites

Etymology

From Rock + -ite.

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