click, detent, dog, pawl

ratchet, crank, push, stoke, pare, ramping, rev, goad, tamp down, creep, snuff, rein, clamp, glom, pull, ante, squelch, whittle, tamps, buckle, rattle, crack, intensifies, tweak, yank, heightening, abate, damps, counterbalance, kowtow, escalating, shift gears, nudge, max, tempering, toughening, backfire, gooses, fever pitch, overblow, fizzle, rip, crimp, wriggle, notch, blunting, shove, dangle, racking, boggle, outman, slash, curb, harden, trump, easing, jacking, skyrocket, futz, prod, sort, turn, stratospheric, parse, undo, busting, elimate, lessening, bridling, gussy, psig, shoring, trigger, roil, jazzes, backtrack, sterner, dodge, shake, wazoo, dicker, limit, shoehorn, simmers, buddying, wane, stiffening, cowing, gobble, morph, budge, falter, lure, nuke, fold, sublimate, melt, set, curdles, corral, whelm, lid

mechanical device

ratch, ratchet