pawl
/pawl/US // pɔl //UK // (pɔːl) //
棘爪,棘轮,棘爪式,爪子
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a pivoted bar adapted to engage with the teeth of a ratchet wheel or the like so as to prevent movement or to impart motion.
v.有主动词 verb
- 1
- : to check or hold with a pawl.
Examples
When the tympanum vibrates under the influence of the voice, the stylus acts as a pawl and turns a ratchet-wheel.
A table was fixed between the fore-mast and the windlass pawl-post, and lockers ran around the lower-bunks and were used as seats.
Pauldron, pawl′dron, n. a separable shoulder-plate in medieval armour.
An' this ratchet-wheel isn't on the pawl prop'ly—not like what this book says it ought to be.
On the lower horizontal roller carrying the supply of paper is a ratchet and pawl movement, actuated by a solenoid.
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