What is "rachet"

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.