Paul vs Pawl - What's the difference?
paul | pawl |
In the New Testament, Apostle to the Gentiles and author of fourteen epistles.
* : Acts 9:4 :
of biblical origin.
* 1848 (Charles Dickens), :
A city in Idaho.
A pivoted catch designed to fall into a notch on a ratchet wheel so as to allow movement in only one direction (e.g. on a windlass or in a clock mechanism), or alternatively to move the wheel in one direction.
* 1994 , Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing :
* 1910 , Victor Appleton, Tom Swift and his Motorcycle
As nouns the difference between paul and pawl
is that paul is an old italian silver coin; a paolo or paul can be while pawl is a pivoted catch designed to fall into a notch on a ratchet wheel so as to allow movement in only one direction (eg on a windlass or in a clock mechanism), or alternatively to move the wheel in one direction.As a verb pawl is
to stop with a pawl.paul
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Then Saul, ( who is also called Paul ,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him
- 'He will be christened Paul , my - Mrs Dombey - of course.'
- She feebly echoed, 'Of course,' or rather expressed it by the motion of her lips, and closed her eyes again.
- 'His father's name, Mrs Dombey, and his grandfather's! I wish his grandfather were alive this day! There is some inconvenience in the necessity of writing Junior,' said Mr Dombey, making a fictitious autograph on his knee; 'but it is merely of a private and personal complexion. It doesn't enter into the correspondence of the House. Its signature remains the same.'
Derived terms
* rob Peter to pay Paul * Saint Paul * PaulineAnagrams
* ----pawl
English
Noun
(en noun)- The nails in the rim of the wheel went ratcheting over the leather pawl and the wheel slowed and came to a stop and the woman turned to the crowd and smiled.
- A pawl is a sort of catch that fits into a ratchet wheel and pushes it around, or it may be used as a catch to prevent the backward motion of a windlass or the wheel on a derrick.