n. a chubby, partridge-like fowl, Lagopus rupestris, of the Barren Grounds.
See also: rock ptarmigan
- 1883  It is the rocker and not the willow bird which has the slender beak.
- 1942  The rattling cry of the rockers echoed from the encircling tundra plateaus above us and from the sloping hillsides.