Definition of Ratchit
Ratch"et (-&ebreve;t), n. [Properly a
diminutive from the same word as rack: cf. F. rochet.
See 2d Ratch, Rack the instrument.] 1.
A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet
wheel, or ratch, etc.
2. A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or
ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d
Ratch.
Ratchet brace (Mech.), a boring brace,
having a ratchet wheel and pawl for rotating the tool by back and
forth movements of the brace handle. -- Ratchet
drill, a portable machine for working a drill by hand,
consisting of a hand lever carrying at one end a drill holder which is
revolved by means of a ratchet wheel and pawl, by swinging the lever
back and forth. -- Ratchet wheel
(Mach.), a circular wheel having teeth, usually angular,
with which a reciprocating pawl engages to turn the wheel forward, or
a stationary pawl to hold it from turning backward.
&fist; In the cut, the moving pawl c slides over the teeth
in one direction, but in returning, draws the wheel with it, while the
pawl d prevents it from turning in the contrary direction.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
- A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl.
- A wrench, implementing a ratchet mechanism, usually used with a set of sockets
- (transitive) To cause to become incremented or decremented.
- (intransitive) To increment or decrement.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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