Ratchet: alternatives and connections

A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anc…

The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circu…

A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…

One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddl…

To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click.

of Click

of Click

Resembling a click; abounding in clicks.

A click. See 3d Click, 2.

A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the w…

One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-paw…

A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.

A kind of latch whose bolt may be so locked by a detent that it can not be opened from the inside by the handle, or from the outside b…

Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of…

tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots

tropical American click beetle having bright luminous spots

spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.

See Click.