What is "ratchety"

Usage examples of "ratchety".

She joined with the man Rukh in a ratchety roar of laughter, but it ended when she saw that the tall man was still staring at the unicorn.

The ratchety ringing sheared a hole through the stitching noises crickets made in the yard, but after a pause they started in again.

I asked, trying to place the ratchety noises that were emanating from all over his room.

The light in the cab went off as the door slammed and the guy was in the aisle again with a shotgun, pumping it with that ratchety sound as Delsa raised his Glock and took aim the way he was taught and shot the guy in the chest, sure of it, the shotgun going off at the sky as the guy dropped to the pavement.

It was the kind of music you could hear in any Riverside tavern, fiddles and ratchety pipes and drums, and everyone loved it.

He sat amid the pillows on his bed, ratchety ratchety come and catchety, eventually leaning over to untie his shoes and then removing the rest of the clothing and stretching for his robe, wondering in this interval of reaching out to finger the patterned fabric why it was that with the coupled obstacles of child size and cyclothymia he had to endure as well the thought-provoking if minor abnormality of a right testicle that hung noticeably lower than the left.