Sentence examples for pawls- from inspiring English sources

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.

On the other hand, it's quite a lot of fun, and very democratic, and it's the very first week, and as an ex-Londoner I still have yearnings, and it was great to see Cameron Diaz chatting so, ahem, informally that she ended up referring to London's famous "crub pawls".

Director of The Pawling Animal Clinic, Pawling, NY.

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.

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.

She studied at Barnard College and Black Mountain College, an institution celebrated as a refuge for major European artists fleeing fascism, and later lived in New York and Pawling.