A hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward.
1 The pawl is pressed into one of these cogs by a spring.
2 The pawl was connected with a lever, M, fixed at the top.
3 Raise elevator pawl shifter 26 on top of the elevator to middle position.
4 Fourth, place right elevator pawl shifter 26 in neutral position.
5 Raise elevator pawl shifter 26 on top of the vertical shaft to upper position.
6 A donkey-engine was rumbling, a winch clattering, a capstan - pawl clanking.
7 All I have to do is to take off the wheels and reverse the pawl .
8 By ratchet and pawl arrangement controlling each.
9 An' this ratchet-wheel isn't on the pawl prop'ly-notlike what this book says it ought to be.
10 The pawl is released and the mandrel turned to the proper number of teeth and the operation repeated.
11 The ratchet and pawl are reversed.
12 With a monkey-wrench he removed the two big wheels of the lawn-mower and reversed the pawl in the cogs.
13 O Crosshead on swinging pawl .
14 R, ratchet wheel and pawl .
15 Cut in right elevator by lowering pawl shifter 26, and if stoker stops, the obstruction is in the right elevator.
16 When the tympanum vibrates under the influence of the voice, the stylus acts as a pawl and turns a ratchet-wheel.
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