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Enable (Words with friends)
SOWPODS (Collins Scrabble Words)
OTCWL2014 (NASPA Word List 2014)
TWL06 (NASPA List 2006)
SOWPODS (Collins Scrabble Words)
OTCWL2014 (NASPA Word List 2014)
TWL06 (NASPA List 2006)
"Ratchet" Definition
noun
A diva, mostly from urban cities and ghettos, that has reason to believe she is every mans eye candy. Unfortunately, she's wrong.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
A mechanism consisting of a pawl that engages the sloping teeth of a wheel or bar, permitting motion in one direction only.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
The pawl, wheel, or bar of this mechanism.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
A mechanism that consists of a bar or wheel having inclined teeth into which a pawl drops so that motion can be imparted to the wheel or bar, governed, or prevented and that is used in a hand tool (as a wrench or screwdriver) to allow effective motion in one direction only.
Source: Merriam-Webster
A pawl or detent for holding or propelling a toothed wheel.
Source: Merriam-Webster
verb-transitive
To cause to increase or decrease by increments: "Some companies . . . may make things worse if they seek to ratchet down their medical expenses by limiting benefits for psychological or psychiatric care” ( Newsweek).
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
verb-intransitive
To increase or decrease by increments.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
verb
To cause to move by steps or degrees.
Source: Merriam-Webster
To proceed by steps or degrees.
Source: Merriam-Webster
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