Device preventing turning backwards - Crossword Clue

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Device preventing turning backwards.

7 letter answer(s) to device preventing turning backwards

RATCHET
  1. mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction
  2. move by degrees in one direction only; "a ratcheting lopping tool"

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Device preventing turning backwards'

… in earth, moving about hundred tons - it only allows travel in one direction
Baker perhaps next to butcher's back at one-way system
Constraint on movement upset the cart
Couple of scoundrels having lost a wheel
Couple of scoundrels, second of which knocking out a tool
Damaged the cart's wheel? Maybe
Device stopping backward motion
Device that allows movement in one direction only
Increase in increments, w
Mechanical device preventing a wheel slipping backwards
Mechanical device skinned fantasy author
Mechanism making the cart wobbly
Move by degrees in one direction only
Odd chatter to progress steadily
Progressively move heart of British comic writer
Scoundrel capturing Conservative wearing the special gear?
Toothed rack
Toothed wheel

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