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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
Answer for the clue "Mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction ", 6 letters:
rachet
Word definitions for rachet in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction [syn: ratchet , ratch ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. ratchet Etymology 2 a. (context slang English) low-down, of low quality
Usage examples of rachet.
He set the rachet driver down, swiveled on his heels and reached to take the kris from the brackets on the wall.
Stundorn wasted an instant trying to crank the cocking rachet of his arbalest.
Fifteen-year-old Leon Rachet had on a Day-Glo flowered shirt and dark Tonton Macoute sunglasses.
At first Rachet smiled broadly as he waved his handcuffed hands high over his head like a prizefight winner.
Inside the cell, the chief of police could already see the white man who shot Leon Rachet the previous morning.
When she hoisted up on tiptoe to reach into the engine compartment, he leaned forward and plucked the long necked rachet from her hand.
She roughly withdrew the plug rachet, snuck another admiring glance and accidentally knocked off the socket head, which clattered through the engine and settled on a steel ledge at the bottom of the compartment.
Virginia Baxter hesitated, then remembering Mason's instructions, went to the drawer of the desk, picked out some of the old legal paper bearing Delano Bannock's imprint, put in new carbon paper, racheted the paper into the typewriter and started typing.