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Ratchet
- noun - mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction
- move by degrees in one direction only; "a ratcheting lopping tool"
Ratites
- noun - flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds
Ratteen
- - A thick woolen stuff quilled or twilled.
Rattier
- adjective - dirty and infested with rats
- of or characteristic of rats
- showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"
Rattled
- verb - make short successive sounds
- shake and cause to make a rattling noise
- thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term)
- unnerved
Rattler
- noun - a railroad train consisting of freight cars
- pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken
Rattles
- noun - a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken
- a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders); "the death rattle"
- loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail
- make short successive sounds
- shake and cause to make a rattling noise
- unnerve
Rau-Sed
- noun - antihypertensive consisting of an alkaloid extracted from the plant Rauwolfia serpentina (trade names Raudixin or Rau-Sed or Sandril or Serpasil)
Ravaged
- verb - cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
- having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the raped countryside"
- make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
Ravager
- - One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.