ratchet vs trolley

ratchet

noun
  • 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. 

verb
  • To increment or decrement. 

  • To cause to become incremented or decremented. 

adj
  • Ghetto; unseemly, indecorous. 

trolley

noun
  • A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus. 

  • A streetcar or light train. 

  • A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes. 

  • A soapbox car. 

  • A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car. 

  • A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system. 

  • A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs. 

  • A handcar. 

  • A hand truck. 

  • A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley. 

verb
  • To bring to by trolley. 

  • To travel by trolley (streetcar, trolleybus or light train). 

  • To use a trolley vehicle to go from one place to another. 

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