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ratchetings

ratchetings is the plural of ratcheting.

Meaning of ratcheting

Noun

ratcheting (countable and uncountable, plural ratchetings)

  1. The act by which something is ratcheted.
  2. A conjurers' trick of bending an object back and forth to induce metal fatigue, so that it can be broken later by rubbing it.

Questions about ratchetings

What is ratchetings the plural of?
Ratchetings is the plural of ratcheting.

Words near ratchetings in the dictionary

  1. ratcheted up
  2. ratcheting
  3. ratcheting toadlet
  4. ratcheting toadlets
  5. ratcheting up
  6. ratchetings
  7. ratchetlike
  8. ratchetness
  9. ratchets
  10. ratchets up
  11. ratchety

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ratchetings (page history and authors); ratcheting (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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