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Detent :: Detent (n.) That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking..

Ratchet :: Ratchet (n.) A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc..

Spawled :: Spawled (imp. & p. p.) of Spaw.

Click :: Click (n.) A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel..

Ratchet :: Ratchet (n.) A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch..

Cross-spall :: Cross-spall (n.) One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-pawl..

Stop :: Stop (n.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought..

Spawling :: Spawling (n.) That which is spawled, or spit out..

Bespawl :: Bespawl (v. t.) To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle..

Cross-pawl :: Cross-pawl (n.) Same as Cross-spale.

Spawling :: Spawling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spaw.

Bitts :: Bitts (n. pl.) A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. 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..

Jumper :: "Jumper (n.) spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece..

Spattle :: Spattle (n.) Spawl; spittle.

Spawl :: Spawl (n.) Scattered or ejected spittle.

Pawl :: 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..

Spawl :: Spawl (v. i. & t.) To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit, as saliva..

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

Spawl :: Spawl (n.) A splinter or fragment, as of wood or stone. See Spall..

Paul :: Paul (n.) See Pawl.

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