A hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward.
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1 The place was silent as the grave; not even a dog barked.
2 Parker refused to say whether the comments were racist or dog - whistle politics.
3 Outside the wind blew; far away in the distance a dog barked.
4 She opened it and found the tail of the little china dog .
5 The dog too went: the most noble-looking item in the beggarly assets.
1 For example, click buttons were made large enough to make navigation easy.
2 Neither will forcing users to click yes in order to sign up.
3 For more information on finding your local home improvement agency click here.
4 For more information and to sign up for the course, click here.
5 Very few new drivers go into a new team and immediately click .
1 When these crystals are warmed, the detent is lifted, and an outflow of light immediately begins.
2 Arnold appeared entirely happy with his pivoted detent escapement-untilhe heard about Earnshaw's spring detent escapement in 1782.
3 The counterpoise was, of course, now aloft, and was so maintained by a detent provided with a trigger.
4 In their case the potential has never become actual, the light is, in fact, held back by a molecular detent .
5 This arm striking against the ratchet detent releases the balance weight, and the belt is at once brought on to the loose pulley.
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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