Full record for rocket-ship n.
| Definition | a spaceship powered by rockets |
| OED requirements | antedating 1925 |
| Earliest cite | H. Scheffauer in The New York Times |
| Comment | Kathleen Miller submitted a 1925 cite from an article by Herman Scheffauer in the New York Times.
Earliest cite in the OED: 1927. |
| Last modified | 6 July, 2008 |