Crossword-Solution: RATCHETS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RATCHETS | anagram | CHATTERS |
We have 14 clues for the answer “RATCHETS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Devices with gearwheels and pawls | 1 answer |
| Elevator safety mechanisms | 1 answer |
| Gadgets with pawls | 1 answer |
| Garage tools | 1 answer |
| Hinged catches | 1 answer |
| Increases by degrees, with "up" | 1 answer |
| Safety devices on lifts. | 1 answer |
| Tools for handymen | 1 answer |
| Watch works | 1 answer |
| Toothed wheels | 2 answers |
| Toothed bars | 2 answers |
| Wheels with teeth. | 3 answers |
| Mechanical devices | 3 answers |
| Increases, with "up" | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RATCHETS (5)
March refused to stop at any door where there were more than six bell-ratchets and speaking-tubes on either hand.
Before the middle of the afternoon she decided against ratchets altogether, and confined herself to knobs, neatly set in the door-trim.
Doesn't it make you feel rather small and otherwise unworthy when you see the kind of street these fellow-beings of yours live in, and then think how particular you are about locality and the number of bellpulls? I don't see even ratchets and speaking-tubes at these doors." He craned his neck out of the window for a better look, and the children of discomfort cheered him, out of sheer good feeling and high spirits.
But how many bell-ratchets and speaking-tubes would you be willing to have at the street door below? I remember that when we were looking for a flat you rejected every building that had a bell-ratchet or a speaking-tube, and would have nothing to do with any that had more than an electric button; you wanted a hall-boy, with electric buttons all over him.
Doesn't it make you feel rather small and otherwise unworthy when you see the kind of street these fellow-beings of yours live in, and then think how particular you are about locality and the number of bellpulls? I don't see even ratchets and speaking-tubes at these doors.” He craned his neck out of the window for a better look, and the children of discomfort cheered him, out of sheer good feeling and high spirits.
Quotes with RATCHETS (2)
God bless the lawn mower, he thought. Who was the fool who made January first New Year’s Day? No, they should set a man to watch the grasses across a million Illinois, Ohio, and Iowa lawns, and on that morning when it was long enough for cutting, instead of ratchets and horns and yelling, there should be a great swelling symphony of lawn mowers reaping fresh grass upon the prairie lands. Instead of confetti and serpentine, people should throw grass spray at each other on the …
How does that put me in danger?” Nick asks. It’s the first question he’s asked the entire time. Devyn, however, has been Mr. Nonstop Wondering Question Guy.“Because . . .” I don’t know how to say it, struggle for the words. “Because you and I are a thing and you’re a threat.”“You better believe I’m a threat,” Nick growls. The entire car seems to shake with his energy. Little hairs on my arm lift and vibrate.“He’s going macho again,” Dev says, totally nonchalantly, while he un…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1956–2017).