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

Pawl :: Pawl (n.) A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel..

Ratch :: Ratch (n.) A ratchet wheel, or notched bar, with which a pawl or click works..

Detent :: Detent (n.) That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking..

Paul :: Paul (n.) See Pawl.

Bespawl :: Bespawl (v. t.) To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle..

Cross-pawl :: Cross-pawl (n.) Same as Cross-spale.

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

Pawl :: Pawl (v. t.) To stop with a pawl; to drop the pawls off.

Spattle :: Spattle (n.) Spawl; spittle.

Spawled :: Spawled (imp. & p. p.) of Spaw.

Stop :: Stop (n.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought..

Bitts :: Bitts (n. pl.) A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc..

Jumper :: "Jumper (n.) spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece..

Spawl :: Spawl (v. i. & t.) To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit, as saliva..

Pall :: Pall (n.) Same as Pawl.

Spawl :: Spawl (n.) A splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. See Spall..

Cross-spall :: Cross-spall (n.) One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-pawl..

Spawling :: Spawling (n.) That which is spawled, or spit out..

Click :: Click (n.) A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel..

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