So they attached levers, pulleys, ratchets and windlasses, until at last they reached the size of the great siege cross-bows, weighing eighteen pounds.
Bolts or ratchets are inserted through the rail, and clamp the cushion to the wall of the rail.
These, when energized, will withdraw the holding pawls from the ratchetsand allow them all to return to their normal positions.
I don't see even ratchets and speaking-tubes at these doors.
But how many bell-ratchets and speaking-tubes would you be willing to have at the street door below?
Before the middle of the afternoon she decided against ratchets altogether, and confined herself to knobs, neatly set in the door-trim.
By a subsidiary arrangement the ratchets are gradually put out of gear unless the governor puts them in gear again, and this prevents the over correction of the speed from the lag in the action of the governor.
The governor puts into gear one or other of two ratchets driven by the turbine itself.
Pressing upon this same lever releases the ratchets and injects the blade.
Blade (missing) is attached to an iron lever, which, when pulled back, is held in place by a lever with ratchets attached to the facing side of the instrument.
The Gabriel Ratchets seem to be the same with the German Rachtvogel or Rachtraven.
The word and the superstition are still known in Lancashire, though in a sense somewhat different; for the Gabriel Ratchets are supposed to be something like litters of puppies yelping in the air.
Just as behind the stories told of the Gabriel Ratchets is the natural cry of migrating wild geese, so the voice of the Seven Whistlers can be traced to passing flocks of widgeon, curlews, or plovers.
The double dog 8 is normally held out of engagement with the vertical and the rotary ratchets by virtue of the link connection, shown at 11, between the release magnet armature and the rear end of the double dog.
This series of operations has led to the energizing of the release magnet, and, as a result, the double dog of the connector is pulled out of the connector shaft ratchets and the shaft and the side switch are restored to their normal position.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ratchets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
