ratchet

7 letters · noun · scores 1,800 in SpellHuntr

noun

mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction

verb

move by degrees in one direction only

Ratchet in a sentence

This holddown ratchets, which allows the person loading the trailer to cinch down the straps.

Get this holddown into position, but don't start ratcheting it yet. When I say go, you start ratcheting it, OK?

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