pawl / pɔl /

📖毕业后词汇棘爪棘轮棘爪式爪子

pawl2 个定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a pivoted bar adapted to engage with the teeth of a ratchet wheel or the like so as to prevent movement or to impart motion.
v. 有主动词 verb
  1. to check or hold with a pawl.

更多pawl例句

  1. When the tympanum vibrates under the influence of the voice, the stylus acts as a pawl and turns a ratchet-wheel.
  2. A table was fixed between the fore-mast and the windlass pawl-post, and lockers ran around the lower-bunks and were used as seats.
  3. Pauldron, pawl′dron, n. a separable shoulder-plate in medieval armour.
  4. An' this ratchet-wheel isn't on the pawl prop'ly—not like what this book says it ought to be.
  5. On the lower horizontal roller carrying the supply of paper is a ratchet and pawl movement, actuated by a solenoid.