Crossword-Solution: RATCHET
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ratchet | n. | A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc. |
| Ratchet | n. | A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RATCHET | anagram | CHATTER, THECART |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RATCHET (5)
She even baited the hooks with the salt shrimp herself, and by nine o'clock they were at anchor some forty feet off shore, and fishing, according to Richardson's advice, "a leetle mite off the edge o' the weeds." "If we don't get a bite the whole blessed day," said Condy, as he paid out his line to the ratchet music of the reel, "we'll have fun just the same.
The box mechanism is usually of the ratchet, step-by-step movement, familiar in district messenger call-boxes.] Edison's curiously practical, though imaginative, mind demanded realities to work upon, things that belong to "human nature's daily food," and he soon harked back to telegraphy, a domain in which he was destined to succeed, and over which he was to reign supreme as an inventor.
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.
Upon it was mounted a broad ratchet-wheel with a crank, while into the teeth of the wheel there played a stout, elastic slab of wood.
When the tympanum vibrates under the influence of the voice, the stylus acts as a pawl and turns a ratchet-wheel.
Quotes with RATCHET (3)
When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a 'ratchet' bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp's mansion.
There was a young girl named Ratchet. She had skill and no one could match it. She wanted to be More stylish and carefree, But she couldn't give up her Ratchet.
When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 27 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).