pawls

Meaning of pawls

noun
  1. 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.
  2. A similar device to prevent motion in other mechanisms besides ratchets.

Information about pawls

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of pawls is: pawl.
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Hyphenation of pawls

pawls

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • pawls is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of pawls

spawl

Words that rhyme with pawls

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