ratchet vs tusk

ratchet

noun
  • 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. 

  • A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl. 

verb
  • To increment or decrement. 

  • To cause to become incremented or decremented. 

adj
  • Ghetto; unseemly, indecorous. 

tusk

noun
  • A fish, the torsk (Brosme brosme). 

  • A sharp point. 

  • One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar, and which continue to grow throughout the animal's life. 

  • A tusk shell. 

  • The share of a plough. 

  • A small projection on a (tusk) tenon. 

  • A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth. 

verb
  • To dig up using a tusk, as boars do. 

  • To gore with the tusks. 

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