rocket (n.)
- alarm
- antelope
- apogee
- arrow
- balefire
- beacon
- bell
- bird
- blinker
- bola
- bolt
- boomerang
- brickbat
- buoy
- burn
- cannonball
- capsule
- climb
- courser
- dart
- docking
- eagle
- electricity
- flare
- flash
- foghorn
- fountain
- gazelle
- glance
- greyhound
- gush
- hare
- heliograph
- injection
- insertion
- jet
- kick
- lark
- leer
- light
- lightning
- mercury
- missile
- module
- nod
- nudge
- orbit
- payload
- perigee
- poke
- projectile
- quicksilver
- reentry
- rock
- semaphore
- shot
- sign
- signal
- skylark
- skyrocket
- snake
- soar
- spacecraft
- spaceship
- spinner
- spurt
- stone
- streak
- surface
- swallow
- thought
- thunderbolt
- torpedo
- torrent
- touch
- upstart
- vernier
- waddy
- warhead
- wind
- wink
- zoom
rocket (v.)
And the final event to himself [Mr. Burke] has been, that, as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.
