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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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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.

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

Paul :: Paul (n.) See Pawl.

Spawl :: Spawl (n.) Scattered or ejected spittle.

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

Spawling :: Spawling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spaw.

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

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..

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..

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..

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