subs. (sporting).—A flushed pheasant, rising quick and straight; ROCKETTING = rising straight.
1869. The Quarterly Review, cxxvii. 387. The driven partridge and the ROCKETING pheasant are beyond the skill of many a man who considers himself a very good shot.
1884. The Field, 6 Dec. It is nonsense to say that a ROCKETER is easily disposed of.
1888. Harper’s Magazine, lxxvii. 182. Presently an old cock-pheasant came ROCKETING over me.
