ratch/ratch -- trigger noise -- Spade loved to get zorched and play with guns. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood Nocturne]
Just listened to Nadine Dorris ratch the whole, 'terror in their eyes' shtick up to No 11. From Wordnik.com. [Will the Telegraph be culpable if there's a suicide?] Reference
Above, the molehole cap began to descend, ratch-eting downward until it was once more level with the surface. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicles of Riddick]
The day gathers pace at sunset with the mordant dance-punk of LCD Soundsystem, whose best songs steadily ratch up the intensity. From Wordnik.com. [Glastonbury festival] Reference
So, do you expect the rhetoric to really ratch it up especially that tough talk as they go into Super Tuesday so someone can really pull ahead. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2008] Reference
When all in pieces, before you proceed to clean, examine with a strong glass to see if the rim of any wheel is rubbing or clashing with anything, particularly the center wheel in any full plate American watch, for these wheels are often dragging on the plate or striking the ratch wheel because it is not true, and if examined before cleaning the places where it drags, are a tell-tale of the mischief. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888] Reference
"Just ratch back and forth and keep heavin 'the lead.". From Wordnik.com. [Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates] Reference
But as soon's the chance is better, then well ratch her off once more. From Wordnik.com. [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference
Note, though, that as you ratch up the ISO sensitivity, you'll see a lot of color splotches and grain in your image. From Wordnik.com. [Macworld] Reference
If Ahmadinejad wins they will accuse all Iranians as standing behind his words and use that argument to ratch up sanctions. From Wordnik.com. [Moon of Alabama] Reference
One was a large, fat, full-sized chestnut, with a white ratch down the full extent of his face, a long square tail, bushy mane, with untrimmed heels. From Wordnik.com. [Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities] Reference
North Korea will put two U.S. journalists arrested last month on its border with China on trial to face criminal charges, its media said on Friday, ratch. From Wordnik.com. [IBTimes.com RSS Feed - Politics & Policy] Reference
The teeth of the ratch and ratchet have so gentle an inclination on one side of each, that although the ratch applies force to the ratchet in the upward direction, they slide freely over in their return. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American magazine, Vol. 2 Issue 1 The advocate of Industry and Journal of Scientific, Mechanical and Other Improvements] Reference
"It's about like bein 'anchored, tryin' to ratch this old tin skimmer away from anywhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul] Reference
"Suthin 'i' the wind out yonder," was his answer: "What's a sloop doing on that ratch so close in by the point?. From Wordnik.com. [The Splendid Spur] Reference
S. O'BRIEN: S.ratch the sugar, spare the starch. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2005] Reference
"Everything gets ratcheted up now and we've got to ratch it up now, too, or all of this goes for naught. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
We'll hae to row home now, or ratch out. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Man's House] Reference
They began their sloshing ratch back to east. From Wordnik.com. [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference
T.D.S. S.ratch Reaction. From Wordnik.com. [unkut.com - A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)] Reference
Also, the socket, m, with its ratch, n, and the catch, i, on the lever. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
Among these are broken pivots, worn pivots (sometimes requiring new ones), worn holes in plates, and at the intersection of barrel arbor, ratch and bridge of Swiss watches, etc., which, as a rule, require common sense as much as practice, and it varies in different watches, so that the common sense rule applies the best to nearly all of these, and if you have not got common mechanical sense, then you have mistaken your calling and should do something else. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888] Reference
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