A similar device to prevent motion in other mechanisms besides ratchets.
A pivoted catch designed to fall into a notch on a ratchet wheel so as to allow movement in only one direction (e.g. on a windlass or in a clock mechanism), or alternatively to move the wheel in one direction.
To stop with a pawl.
A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
A noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear. See gragger, raganella.
A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
A ratchet wrench.
To increment or decrement.
To cause to become incremented or decremented.
Ghetto; unseemly, indecorous.