Without a ratchet, you put the wrench on the bolt, turn it 1/4 turn, then remove the wrench and put it back on the bolt (which is time consuming and clumsy). Many socket wrenches are ratcheting this enables you to easily turn a bolt where you have a limited amount of room to work with imagine something in a corner so you can only move the wrench 90 degrees. A cable tie or zip tie is maybe the most common ratchet in the world you can pull them tighter, but not make them looser (except to cut them off entirely). The informal derogatory slang meaning has been covered extensively, and I don't think it's related to the technical term at all.Ī ratchet is a mechanical device that permits one direction of movement but not the other - either in rotation or linearly. It's a pretty uncommon word, so wondering if any other lawyers use it a lot or it means something legally? Or is this just coincidence?
Someone I know is an American attorney and uses that word frequently - but in the sense of "the ratchet tightening" or "ratcheting towards a goal".
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