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Crossword-Solution: PAWL 4 letters, 54 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Pawl n. A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine,
adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part,
as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one
direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch,
click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel.
Pawl v. t. To stop with a pawl; to drop the pawls off.

We have 54 clues for the answer “PAWL”

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Ratchet wheel partner 1 answer
Mechanical click. 1 answer
Mechanical device on a cogwheel. 1 answer
Neighbor of a ratchet. 1 answer
Pivoted bolt 1 answer
Pivoting device 1 answer
RATCHET wheel bar 1 answer
Ratchet bar 1 answer
Ratchet catch 1 answer
Ratchet engager 1 answer
Ratchet part 1 answer
Ratchet wheel engager 1 answer
Ratchet wheel part 1 answer
Machinery part that sounds like a man's name 1 answer
Ratchet's partner 1 answer
Ratchet-wheel engager 1 answer
Ratchet-wheel part 1 answer
Ratchet-wheel partner 1 answer
Ratchet-wheel regulator 1 answer
Ratcheting wheel mechanism 1 answer
Safety catch 1 answer
Sliding bolt 1 answer
Sliding bolt in a machine. 1 answer
Something to sink one's teeth into 1 answer
Trigger-to-cylinder connection 1 answer
Wheel-ratchet engager 1 answer
Machine part connecting to a gearwheel 1 answer
It engages a ratchet wheel 1 answer
Hinged tongue 1 answer
Device used with a ratchet wheel. 1 answer
Cogwheel accessory 1 answer
Click catch. 1 answer
Bolt on a ratchet. 1 answer
Bar that engages with a ratchet 1 answer
Bar locking a capstan in place 1 answer
WINDLASS part 2 answers
Mechanical catch 2 answers
pivoted bar 2 answers
Hinged catch. 2 answers
part machine 3 answers
ratchet 4 answers
detent 4 answers
CAPSTAN ___ 5 answers
INDIAN tent 5 answers
cog 10 answers
A MECHANICAL DEVICE FOR SCATTERING SOMETHING IN ALL DIRECTIONS 10 answers
A MECHANICAL DEVICE USED FOR DICING FOOD 10 answers
A WHEEL WITH TEETH FOR MAKING A ROW OF PERFORATIONS 11 answers
Machine part? 21 answers
Tent 27 answers
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Sentences with PAWL (5)

Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995
One was used in connection with the propelling lever, which was provided with a pawl to fit into the teeth of the reversed ratchet wheel on its forward movement.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin 2006
The paper "feed" is shown at the end of the press-lever, and consists of a push "dog," or pawl, which operates to urge the paper forward as the press-lever descends.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin 2006
When the tympanum vibrates under the influence of the voice, the stylus acts as a pawl and turns a ratchet-wheel.
Heroes of the Telegraph J. Munro 1997
Where things are "done with a will," every one is like a cat aloft: sails are loosed in an instant; each one lays out his strength on his handspike, and the windlass goes briskly round with the loud cry of "Yo heave ho! Heave and pawl! Heave hearty ho!" But with us, at this time, it was all dragging work.
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 2000
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 57 times in crossword archives (1953–2024).