Pawl is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 32 anagrams from letters in pawl (alpw).
First recorded in 1620-30, pawl is from the Dutch word pal ratchet
The ratchet wheel and pawl shown in fig. 48 are part of the lubricator.
A pawl or tongue one end of which engages in notches in a rack or wheel.
With a monkey-wrench he removed the two big wheels of the lawn-mower and reversed the pawl in the cogs.
When the tympanum vibrates under the influence of the voice, the stylus acts as a pawl and turns a ratchet-wheel.
The capstan is prevented from turning back by a pawl attached to its lower part, working in a circular ratchet on the base.
The first pull of the chain turns on the gas through a four-way gas-cock, governed by a ratchet-wheel and pawl.
An' this ratchet-wheel isn't on the pawl prop'ly—not like what this book says it ought to be.
Plenty of oil should be kept on the circle of teeth in which the pawl engages in revolving the cylinder.
As the wheel turns this arm will move as a pawl does on a ratchet.
The capstan is prevented from turning back by a pawl attached to its lower part and working in a circular ratchet on the base.