- present tense form of rocket (3rd person singular).
rockets
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With its towers and battlements, crockets and pointy arches, it looks like a demented castle — a castle with an 83,000-seat football stadium inside.
From Washington Post
The same foliations, crockets, battlementing and, above all, the same wiry line, organic yet abstracted, ran right through the arts of the period, binding them together into a general style with innumerable variations.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is rarely aware that many of the gargoyles, crockets and spires that he sees are merely 19th century replicas designed to replace what time and the French Revolution destroyed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Stone finials and crockets are, I think, to be considered in architecture, what points and flashes of light are in the color of painting, or of nature.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John
At the top, the drip-mould grows into a large trefoil with crockets outside and an armillary sphere within.
From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum
