ratcheted

Verb

ratchet (third-person singular simple present ratchets, present participle ratcheting, simple past and past participle ratcheted)

1. (intransitive) To increment or decrement; especially, to offer controlled motion that can increment while resisting decrement, or vice versa.
   • This holddown ratchets, which allows the person loading the trailer to cinch down the straps.
2. (transitive) To cause (something) to become incremented or decremented.
   • Get this holddown into position, but don't start ratcheting it yet. When I say go, you start ratcheting it, OK?

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