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Pawl vs Dawg - What's the difference?

pawl | dawg |

As nouns the difference between pawl and dawg

is that pawl is 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 while dawg is eye dialect of nodot=8 lang=en; also {{term|hound dawg}}.

As a verb pawl

is to stop with a pawl.

As an initialism DAWG is

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pawl

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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 :
    • 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.
  • * 1910 , Victor Appleton, Tom Swift and his Motorcycle
    • 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.

    Derived terms

    * pawl bitt * pawl rim

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To stop with a pawl.

    • Derived terms

    * pawl the capstan

    dawg

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • ; also (hound dawg).
    • That dawg won't hunt.
  • (slang) Dude, bud, pal. used to address a close male friend.
    • Sup, dawg .

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    Usage notes

    Using this spelling of dog'' emphasizes dialect and should only be done if this is explicitly intended. Every example above could also be written with ''dog , de-emphasizing dialect.

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