noun. A hinged or pivoted device adapted to fit into a notch of a ratchet wheel to impart forward motion or prevent backward motion.

noun. A short iron bar acting as a catch or brake to prevent a windlass or capstan from turning back. See cuts under capstan and pattern-chain.

noun. A bar pivoted to a movable or fixed support at one end, and having its opposite end adapted to fit the teeth of a ratchet-wheel or ratchet-bar, used either for holding the ratchet-wheel or -bar in a position to which it has been moved by other mechanism (as in the case where the pawl is pivoted to a fixed support), or for moving it (as when the pawl is pivoted to a movable support).

noun. Cross pawl, in ship-building.

transitive verb. To stop with a pawl; to drop the pawls off.

transitive verb. See under Capstan.

noun. A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of ratchet wheel.

noun. a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the pawls.

noun. a stationary metallic ring surrounding the base of a capstan, having notches for the pawls to catch in.

noun. undefined

noun. 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.

verb. To stop with a pawl.

noun. a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward

"His mechanic had removed a pawl or two in an effort to decrease freehub drag, but the results were disastrous."

gravity pawl  pawl and half pawl  spring-pawl  

pawl ring  

catch  stop  

backplate  bipod  capstan  clevis  cocking  

catch  lever  

Paul  pall  ratchet wheel