A ratchet wrench.
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 mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
Ghetto; unseemly, indecorous.
To increment or decrement.
To cause to become incremented or decremented.
Something that whirls.
(usually following “give”) A brief experiment or trial.
A rapid series of events.
Dizziness or giddiness.
An act of whirling.
A confused tumult.
To make something or someone whirl.
To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.