Ratchet

[Ratch·et]

A ratchet is a gadget with mechanical teeth on a wheel that moves in only one direction. Therefore, ratcheting is to move something slowly in one direction.

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A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.

Noun
mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction

Verb
move by degrees in one direction only; "a ratcheting lopping tool"

n.
A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.

n.
A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch.

Ratchet

Ratch"et , n. [Properly a diminutive from the same word as rack: cf. F. rochet. See 2d Ratch, Rack the instrument.] 1. A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc. 2. A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch. Ratchet brace (Mech.), a boring brace, having a ratchet wheel and pawl for rotating the tool by back and forth movements of the brace handle. -- Ratchet drill, a portable machine for working a drill by hand, consisting of a hand lever carrying at one end a drill holder which is revolved by means of a ratchet wheel and pawl, by swinging the lever back and forth. -- Ratchet wheel (Mach.), a circular wheel having teeth, usually angular, with which a reciprocating pawl engages to turn the wheel forward, or a stationary pawl to hold it from turning backward. &hand; In the cut, the moving pawl c slides over the teeth in one direction, but in returning, draws the wheel with it, while the pawl d prevents it from turning in the contrary direction.

Rate

Rate , v. t. & i. [Perh. fr. E. rate, v. t., to value at a certain rate, to estimate, but more prob. fr. Sw. rata to find fault, to blame, to despise, to hold cheap; cf. Icel. hrat refuse, hrati rubbish.] To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently. Spencer.

Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy!

Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it.

A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.

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