Ratchets
[rætʃits]
Examples
- Finger pawls, working into ratchets at the ends of the roller, serve to rotate it after each line is printed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Bolts or ratchets are inserted through the rail, and clamp the cushion to the wall of the rail. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- So they attached levers, pulleys, ratchets and windlasses, until at last they reached the size of the great siege cross-bows, weighing eighteen pounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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