Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tool for drilling holes by means of a ratchet in a narrow plane where there is no room for the common brace.
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Those were the days when men swooned over the ratchet-drill and the hand-forge, and where they fell they had leave to lie unless their bodies were in the way of their fellows 'feet.
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