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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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 (n.) Scattered or ejected spittle.

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

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..

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

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

Paul :: Paul (n.) See Pawl.

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

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

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