ratchet wheel
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People say the initiative and the referendum, against which I have talked, are like a ratchet wheel.
From Ethics in Service by Taft, William H.
The L lever carries a pawl which operates a ratchet wheel, placed on the handle end of the slide rest cross feed screw.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
SB is the primitive radius of the club tooth wheel, but both primitive and real radius of the ratchet wheel.
From An Analysis of the Lever Escapement by Playtner, H. R.
The first impulse sent out is a long impulse and pulls up both armatures, thereby causing the pawls above and below the small ratchet wheel, shown in Fig.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by McMeen, Samuel
A spring catch kept the ratchet wheel in place at the end of each forward rotation of the wheel by the pawl.
From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Cooper, Grace Rogers
