Ratchet

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Invention

Domain

Arts and letters

Knowledge cost

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What Wikipedia says

A ratchet or rattle, more specifically, cog rattle is a musical instrument of the percussion family and a warning/signaling device. It operates on the principle of the ratchet device, using a gearwheel and a stiff board mounted on a handle, which rotates freely.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Ratchet (instrument)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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