RATCHET
\ɹˈat͡ʃɪt], \ɹˈatʃɪt], \ɹ_ˈa_tʃ_ɪ_t]\
Definitions of RATCHET
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction
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move by degrees in one direction only; "a ratcheting lopping tool"
By Princeton University
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mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction
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move by degrees in one direction only, as of toothed wheels
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch.
By Oddity Software
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A tooth or tongue, also called a pawl or a click, which fits into the notches of a toothed, or ratchet, wheel; the toothed wheel; the toothed wheel and the pawl, working together.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In clock and watch making, a small arm or bar, one end of which abuts against a toothed wheel, called a ratchet-wheel, whose use is either to communicate motion or to prevent backward motion-in the former case being called a click or paul, and in the latter a detent; in mech., a bar having angular teeth, into which a paul drops to prevent a machine being reversed when in motion.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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