Sentence examples for pawl from inspiring English sources
noun
A pivoted catch designed to fall into a notch on a ratchet wheel so as to allow movement in only one direction (e.g. on a windlass or in a clock mechanism), or alternatively to move the wheel in one direction.
The pawl kut is also a harvest festival, which takes place in December or January.
If the pawl is rotated half a turn so that its sloping side is on the left, oscillation of the arm rotates the wheel in a clockwise direction only.
The pawl Q pivots on a fixed axis and rides over the pointed teeth when the spring is being wound but prevents rotation of the wheel in a clockwise direction.
On cars with automatic transmissions, an additional lock is usually provided in the form of a pawl that can be engaged, by placing the shift lever in the "park" position, to prevent the drive shaft and rear wheels from turning.
A tumbler is a lever, or pawl, that falls into a slot in the bolt and prevents it being moved until it is raised by the key to exactly the right height out of the slot; the key then slides the bolt.
For those of you who are still spinning your gears over it, this is what a PAWL looks like.
Director of The Pawling Animal Clinic, Pawling, NY.
The applicable technology involved either telephone and telegraph communications (employing punched paper tape, telephone switches, and relays) or calculating machines such as the Brunsvigas, Marchants, Facits, and Friedens (employing gears, sprockets, ratchets, pawls, and cams).
Although ratchets with pawls and toothed wheels are the most common, other types are used.
A notched track (ratchet) on the base plate and pawls attached to the drum prevent backward rotation.
Following three years as a U.S., Army Captain in WWII, Judge Benson returned to Cornell, where he earned his J.D. Admission to the NY Bar Association was followed by his private practice in Pawling.
