A cylindrical blowing device that consists of a mouthpiece, which may or may not be a whistle, attached to a coiled tube of paper, given to guests and used at large celebrations especially New Year's Eve, or birthdays. When the mouthpiece is blown into, the paper tube unravels and a humorous festive noise is produced.
A noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear. See gragger, raganella.
A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
A ratchet wrench.
A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
To increment or decrement.
To cause to become incremented or decremented.
Ghetto; unseemly, indecorous.