Answer to "Pawl or detent" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word RATCHET which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1952.

Pawl or detent crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
RATCHET	100 %	7

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Pawl or detent

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• click
• clicking
• ratchet
• rack
• ratchet wheel
• trip
• hawksbill
• backstop
• bait
• bullmastiff
• champion
• clasp

Crossword Answer definitions

RATCHET noun

1. A pawl, click or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
2. A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
3. A ratchet wrench.
4. (by extension) A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.

RATCHET verb

1. To cause to become incremented or decremented.
2. To increment or decrement.

RATCHET adjective

1. Ghetto; unseemly, indecorous.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result RATCHET

• Shop tool
• Gradually turn (up)
• Move by degrees
• Toothed wheel that's often part of a set
• Escalate, with "up"
• Increase gradually, with "up"
• Pawl or click that works with wheel.
• Pawl or detent.
• Pawl.
• Toothed wheel.