ratchet

ratchet is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 12 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
2. noun. A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch.
3. noun. mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction

   Synonyms: rachet, ratch

4. verb. move by degrees in one direction only

   "a ratcheting lopping tool"

Synonyms

rachet, ratch

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ratchet:

chatter

Common word forms

ratchets, ratcheted, ratcheting

Words from these letters

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