Watchet vs Ratchet - What's the difference?
watchet | ratchet |
(obsolete) A light blue color.
(obsolete) Cloth or clothes of this color.
* (c. 1343-1400):
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.iv:
(obsolete) Of the color watchet (as of eyes, clothes, etc.).
* (1631-1700):
A pawl, click or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
A ratchet wrench.
(analogous ) A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
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As nouns the difference between watchet and ratchet
is that watchet is (obsolete) a light blue color while ratchet is a pawl, click or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.As adjectives the difference between watchet and ratchet
is that watchet is (obsolete) of the color watchet (as of eyes, clothes, etc) while ratchet is (us|slang) ghetto (unseemly and indecorous).As a verb ratchet is
to cause to become incremented or decremented.watchet
English
Noun
(en noun)- Y-clad he was ful smal and proprely, al in a kirtel of a light wachet — ful faire and thikke been the poyntes set.
- They him disarm'd, and spredding on the ground / Their watchet mantles frindgd with siluer round, / They softly wipt away the gelly blood [...].
Adjective
(en adjective)- Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes?
ratchet
English
(wikipedia ratchet)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty.}}
