pawl – English noun declension

English noun forms of pawl

Noun: pawl

Singular	pawl
Plural	pawls

Sample Sentences

A pawl is a sort of catch that fits into a ratchet wheel and pushes it around, or it may be used as a catch to prevent the backward motion of a windlass or the wheel on a derrick. [1910, Victor Appleton, Tom Swift and his Motorcycle:]
The nails in the rim of the wheel went ratcheting over the leather pawl and the wheel slowed and came to a stop and the woman turned to the crowd and smiled. [1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:]

Nouns inflected like pawl

soldier's woundwort, Nicosian, whopper, greypate, tactile sign language, chronotrope, Rosie Lee, dissentient, photoinactivator, sulphonediimine, coastal waterfall, residuary devise, bituminization, nitrosonaphthol, smṛiti, geosphere, backscreen, mensuralist, flocculate, flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

17th c., perhaps from Low German or Dutch pal (“catch (mechanism)”), or from either French pal (“stake”) or épaule (“shoulder”). See: Dutch Nouns 'pal', French Nouns 'pal'.