pawl

"I would have been more than happy with such, Pawl."

This pawl advances only when the film is to be moved to the next image.

He started to reach for the control pawl to one side of the door, then realized that a work crew was almost certainly inside.

The hammer mass remains locked in place by the pawl.

At the end of the movement the hammer mass is hooked by the pawl.

I, then, like several of the others, the holding pawl now engaged, put my head down on the bar, resting.

The first pawl had a projection that engaged a trip lever.

If the pawl were held away from the sleeve the clutch would continue to drive the load without slipping.

If the lever engaged the pawl, the clutch was disengaged.

Under that much stress, the pawl may simply break off in the transmission, leading to costly repairs.

It is kept there against spring tension by a pawl pivoted on the frame.

As the pawl retreats for the next cycle it is drawn back and does not engage the film.

It highly inadvisable to use the parking pawl to stop a vehicle in motion.

Once more the handle moved and the pawl slipped into a new notch on the ratchet.

A spring-loaded pawl pressed against the sleeve and kept it from rotating.

The pawl mechanism is generally not strong enough to stop a vehicle in motion, if it engages at all.

Ms. Pawl said: "Some of them try to give us money.

The wrap spring's torque kept the sleeve's tooth pressing against the pawl.

To engage the clutch, an electromagnet attracted the pawl away from the sleeve.

When power to the coil disconnects, the spring retracts the pawl.

The pawl was moved yet another notch.

This mechanical type uses a spring to hold a drive pawl against a notch in the rotor.

"Put the pawl in for a moment.

"Patrick was a little nervous in our first rehearsals," Ms. Pawl said.

'Or a capstan: but then you call it a pawl,' said another.