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Ratchet   /rˈætʃət/  /rættʃət/   Listen
Ratchet

verb
1.
Move by degrees in one direction only.  Synonyms: rachet up, ratchet down.



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"Ratchet" Quotes from Famous Books



... green-lined basket. She had doffed the apron and hung it behind the scullery door. With all the delicious curves of her figure newly revealed, she was reaching the alarm-clock down from the mantelpiece, and then she was winding it up. The ratchet of the wheel clacked, and the hurried ticking was loud. In the grate of the range burned ...
— The Price of Love • Arnold Bennett

... the terminal station of the small ratchet railway. When they parted the Spaniard and the yachtsman had arranged a telegraph code which might be used by the small but complete wireless equipment of the Isis. An hour later the launch from the yacht ...
— The Lighted Match • Charles Neville Buck

... up to the work bench. Two small hammers, one with an A-shaped peon, and the other with a round peon, should be selected, and also a plane and a small wood saw with fine teeth. A bit stock, or a ratchet drill, if you can afford it, with a variety of small drills; two wood chisels, say of 3/8-inch and 3/4-inch widths; small cold chisels; hack saw, 10-inch blade; small iron square; pair of dividers; tin shears; ...
— Electricity for Boys • J. S. Zerbe



Words linked to "Ratchet" :   pawl, click, march on, mechanical device, progress, detent, dog, advance, move on, go on, pass on



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