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A rocket engine.

See arugula.

A vehicle or device propelled by one or more rocket engines, especially such a vehicle designed to travel through space.

A herb of the mustard family (Eruca sativa), with pungently flavored leaves often eaten in salads.

A projectile weapon carrying a warhead that is powered and propelled by rockets.

Erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender

A projectile firework having a cylindrical shape and a fuse that is lit from the rear.

See arugula.

Any of several plants of the mustard family, especially the dame's rocket and the sea rocket.

To move swiftly and powerfully, as a rocket

To fly swiftly straight up, as a game bird frightened from cover.

To soar or rise rapidly

To carry by means of a rocket.

To assault with rockets.

A rocket engine.

(military) A non-guided missile propelled by a rocket engine.

A vehicle propelled by a rocket engine.

A rocket propelled firework; a skyrocket.

(slang) An ace (the playing card).

An angry communication (such as a letter or telegram) to a subordinate.

A blunt lance head used in jousting.

(figurative) Something that shoots high in the air.

A stupid or crazy person.

A very physically attractive woman.

The leaf vegetable Eruca sativa or Eruca vesicaria.

(Consolida regalis).

(ambitransitive) To accelerate swiftly and powerfully.

To fly vertically.

To rise or soar rapidly.

To carry something in a rocket.

To attack something with rockets.

A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad.

An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display.

A blunt lance head used in the joust.

Any flying device propelled by the reactive force of hot gases expelled in the direction opposite its motion. The fuel used to generate the expelled gases in rockets may be solid or liquid; rockets propelled by liquid fuels typically have a combustible fuel (such as hydrogen or kerosene) which is combined inside the rocket engine with an oxidizer, such as liquid oxygen. Single liquid fuels (called monopropellants) are also known. Since rocket engines do not depend on a surrounding fluid medium to generate their thrust, as do airplanes with propellers or jet engines, they may be used for propulsion in the vacuum of space.

To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective.

Any vehicle propelled by a rocket engine

A jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion

Erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender

Propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon

Sends a firework display high into the sky

Shoot up abruptly, like a rocket;

Propel with a rocket