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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..

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

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..

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

Ratch :: Ratch (n.) A ratchet wheel, or notched bar, with which a pawl or click works..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Paul :: Paul (n.) See Pawl.

Pall :: Pall (n.) Same as Pawl.

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..

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

Pawl :: Pawl (v. t.) To stop with a pawl; to drop the pawls off.

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

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