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Ratchet

A list of 13 words by ruzuzu.

  • ratchet upwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 2 lists
  • ratchwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 11 lists
  • detentwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 10 lists
  • ratchet bed-keywas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
  • pawlwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 23 lists
  • clickwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 63 lists
  • catchwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 49 lists
  • dogwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 130 lists
  • ratchet-pawlwas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
  • click-wheelwas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
  • ratchet-wheel clickwas added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
  • palletwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 37 lists
  • ratchet-wheelwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 2 lists
  • ratchetwas added by ruzuzu and appears on 52 lists

About

From the Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia:

"n. A detent or pivoted piece designed to fit into the teeth of a ratchet-wheel, permitting the wheel to rotate in one direction, but not in the other. A similar device so arranged as to move the wheel is termed a pallet. (See ratchet-wheel click, 3, pawl, and detent.) Combined with the ratchet-wheel as a means of converting a reciprocating into a rotary motion, the ratchet appears in a number of tools and gives its name to each: as, the ratchet bed-key, etc.

n. In printing, a notched straight blade of brass which rotates the pinions attached to the movable clamps of an electrotype plate mounted upon a block."

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