Word Meanings - PAWL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse,

Additional info about word: PAWL

A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, to receive the strain of the pawls. -- Pawl rim or ring , a stationary metallic ring surrounding the base of a capstan, having notches for the pawls to catch in.

Related words: (words related to PAWL)

• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• PERMIT
  1. To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with. What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker. 2. To grant express license or liberty
• MACHINER
  One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• SLIDE
  1. To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another. 2. To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.
• MOTIONER
  One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
• MOTIONIST
  A mover.
• TONGUELET
  A little tongue.
• SLIDER
  The red-bellied terrapin . Slider pump, a form of rotary pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, slides; especially, a sliding part of an instrument or machine.
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• PERMITTER
  One who permits. A permitter, or not a hinderer, of sin. J. Edwards.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• WHEELBIRD
  The European goatsucker.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• WHEEL OF FORTUNE
  A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
• PERMITTEE
  One to whom a permission or permit is given.
• TONGUESTER
  One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
• GRAMME MACHINE
  A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.
• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• CATHERINE WHEEL
  See WINDOW (more info) Alexandria, who is represented with a wheel, in allusion to her
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• BURRING MACHINE
  A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• FOUR-WHEELER
  A vehicle having four wheels.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• NERVIMOTION
  The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
• PELTON WHEEL
  A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity.
• BACKSLIDING
  Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.