Pawl in a sentence as a noun

It's like a spinning ratchet wheel, where the test suite is the pawl.

The pawl in bikes can range from nearly silent to annoying, but this one seems to be even worse.

Elastic band breaks, rounded-off pawl cylinder ring ?

Pawl definitions

noun

a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward

See also: detent click