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ratchet

noun as in bobbin

noun as in cog

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Lawmaking by legislatures is also a one-way ratchet—Legislators get credit for passing laws, not pruning them.

Every message, action and gesture seems calculated to ratchet up the anxiety of those who are listening.

Sean Hannity versus Michael Savage—these two conservative radio hosts have recently ratchet up their rivalry.

Dancers are suspended in midair like the cast of a ratchet Cirque du Soleil performance.

“Pour It Up” exists in a magical, ratchet room of requirement.

When the tympanum vibrates under the influence of the voice, the stylus acts as a pawl and turns a ratchet-wheel.

Drilling machines, both hand and power, hand and ratchet braces and breast-drill stocks.

SB is the primitive radius of the club tooth wheel, but both primitive and real radius of the ratchet wheel.

On the pendulum he had a little ratchet wheel, R, having thirty teeth.

On the side of the clock case was a contact maker, which closed the circuit by the pin on the ratchet wheel, R, once every minute.

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On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ratchet, such as: braid, coil, cord, cylinder, pin, and quill.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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