Ratchet is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RATCHET in dictionary:

VERB:
• to move by a ratchet mechanism, also RACHET
• operate by means of a ratchet
• cause something to rise (or fall) as a step in what is perceived as an irreversible process
• move by degrees in one direction only
• move using or as if using a ratchet system
NOUN:
• a mechanism which allows motion in one direction only
• a device consisting of a bar or wheel with a set of angled teeth in which a pawl, cog, or tooth engages, allowing motion in one direction only
• a bar or wheel that forms part of a ratchet.
• a situation or process that is perceived to be changing in a series of irreversible steps
• set of teeth on a bar or wheel allowing motion in one direction only
• A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
• A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch.
• mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to increase or decrease by small amounts

Words related to RATCHET

rachet11 ratch10 ratcheted15 ratcheting16 ratchets13

Words that contain RATCHET

bratchet15 ratchets13 bratchets16 fratchety20 ratcheted15 ratcheting16 fratchetier19 fratchetiest20

How to use RATCHET in a sentence

• Out on the small deck voices were quietly audible and the clink of a ratchet told that the boat was weighing anchor.
• When the final sheet came out with a whirring rasp of the ratchet, he suddenly remembered that he had promised Miss Van Brock to dine with her.
• There is, however, an important difference in the magazine, which has no spiral spring, but is furnished instead with an ingenious system of ratchet bars.
• On a frame above either end of each trunk a door was hung on a horizontal pivot and provided with a ratchet.
• The piston table is raised by means of the winch, and is held in this position through the engaging of a click with a ratchet on the windlass.
• The great objection to it was the noise it produced, and the wear and tear of the ratchet and rack arrangements.
• The diagram will make clear how these vibrating tables are worked by means of ratchet wheels.
• A winch axle and ratchet, adjusted in a frame as shown, are then employed to pull the ends of the belt together and hold them firmly till the lacing is completed.
• The third cause which catches hold, like a ratchet wheel in machinery, from time to time producing a complete standstill, is the greater strength of the defensive form.
• Then he felt of every wheel, lever, cam, ratchet, drum, and other portion within reach of his fingers.
• Meanwhile the toe of his right boot counted the increasing tempo until it came up and down like a ratchet.
• Another impulse will move all of the ratchet wheels another step, and so on throughout any desired number of impulses.
• The ratchet wheels, therefore, are all stepped in unison.
• What is the object of the ratchet in this system? 19.
• This brings them to the loose pulley, unless they are fixed by means of the ratchet.

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