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Definition of Ratching
1. ratch [v] - See also: ratch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ratching
Literary usage of Ratching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist: Being a Practical Display of by John Nicholson (1825)
"I then ratched the wheel round continually in the same direction without ever
disengaging the screw; and, in ratching the wheel about 300 times round, ..."
2. The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist: Being a Practical Display of by John Nicholson (1826)
"... could examine it at every 33^;) not finding any sensible difference between
the two sets of divisions, I, ratching, made choice of the former; and, ..."
3. The Practical Metal-worker's Assistant ...: With the Application of the Art by Oliver Byrne, John Scoffern, William Clay, William Fairbairn, James Napier (1864)
"In ratching or cutting the wheel," says Mr. Ramsden, " the circle was divided
with the greatest exactness I was capable of, first into 5 parts, ..."
4. The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist: Being a Practical Display of by John Nicholson (1825)
"... could examine it at every 33J;) bot not finding any sensible difference between
the two sets of division- ratching, made choice of the former ; and, ..."
5. A Treatise of Mechanics: Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive by Olinthus Gregory (1826)
"I then ratched the wheel round continually in the same direction without ever
disengaging the screw; and in ratching the wheel about 800 times round, ..."
6. A Treatise of Mechanics: Theoretical, Practical, and Descriptive by Olinthus Gregory (1806)
"... I could examine their agreement at every 135 revolutions ; (after ratching,
could ey mine it at every 33^-) : but, not finding any ..."
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