Clues for the word "RATCHET"
We've had 27 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 36 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily Quick crossword on March 24, 2026.
Definition of ratchet
- n. - A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
- n. - A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch.
Referring Clues
- Toothed wheel
- Escalate, with "up"
- Increase gradually, with "up"
- Pawl's partner
- Increase in increments, with "up"
- Sprocket
- Escalate, with "up"
- Tightening tool
- "I smell a ___, ___"
- Wheel with sloped teeth
- Pawl engager
- Wheel in turnstiles
- Mechanism in a unidirectional wrench
- Type of wrench
- Mechanical device preventing a wheel slipping backwards
- Device that allows movement in one direction only
- Set of teeth chatter uncontrollably
- Damaged the cart's wheel? Maybe
- Chatter (anag)
- Toothed device allowing unidirectional movement
- Device consisting a toothed wheel and pawl that allows movement in one direction only
- Chatterboxes check on the wheel
- Two deceivers, the second lacking a device with teeth
- Turning device that could make you chatter
- Gradually increase, with "up"
- Notched wheel
- Increase incrementally, with "up"
Last Seen In
- Daily Quick - March 24, 2026
- Daily Quick - August 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 22, 2025
- Family Time - July 07, 2024
- Daily Quick - March 23, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 05, 2023
- New York Times - November 15, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 08, 2017
- Daily Quick - August 05, 2017
- Netword - April 15, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - November 18, 2016
- Guardian Quick - April 27, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - January 20, 2016
- Guardian Quick - January 16, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - January 04, 2016
- New York Times - August 06, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - March 26, 2015
- USA Today - July 23, 2014
- Guardian Quick - July 18, 2014
- Family Time - February 24, 2014
- New York Times - January 16, 2014
- USA Today - September 23, 2013
- LA Times Sunday - December 30, 2012
- Guardian Quick - August 12, 2012
- Universal - March 20, 2012
- Guardian Everyman - June 26, 2011
- Universal - November 05, 2010
- New York Times - October 20, 2010
- Post Puzzler - August 22, 2010
- And in 6 more crossword puzzles...