Rachet vs. Ratchet

Rachetnoun

mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction

Ratchetnoun

A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.

Ratchetnoun

A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.

Ratchetnoun

A ratchet wrench.

Ratchetnoun

(by extension) A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.

Ratchetnoun

A noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear. See gragger, raganella.

Ratchetverb

(transitive) To cause to become incremented or decremented.

Ratchetverb

(intransitive) To increment or decrement.

Ratchetadjective

Ghetto; unseemly, indecorous.

Ratchetnoun

A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.

Ratchetnoun

A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch.

Ratchetnoun

mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction

Ratchetverb

move by degrees in one direction only;