She had been newly sheathed with copper, and when she heeled over from the breeze as she stretched through the winding reaches of the river the metal shone like gold above the wool-white line of foam through which the cutter washed, and lazy men in barges would turn their heads to admire her, and red-capped cooks in the cabooses of "ratching" colliers would step to the rail to look, and sometimes a party of gay and gallant Cockneys, male and female, taking their pleasure in a wherry, would salute the passing _Tom Bowling_ with a flourish of hands and pocket handkerchiefs. ❋ Unknown (1877)
Do I detect that this is an issue which Plaid seem to be ratching up a gear on in recent weeks with Dai Lloyd's activity recently as mentioned on your blog Ordovicius? ❋ Unknown (2008)
Of course here in New Orleans, god shows us we shouldn't be here starting in May by ratching up the temp and the humidity. ❋ Rogers (2007)
While ratching its own military spending to new and lofty heights, the White House decries modest increases in military spending by Russia and China. ❋ Unknown (2006)
One way we're ratching up the service we provide is through the use of Lean Six Sigma tools. ❋ Unknown (2004)
More importantly, the establishment of this and other agencies marks a significant ratching up of the integration process, a deliberate move intended to increase the visibility of "Europe" by ensuring that obscure technocratic functions are given a specific, high profile European identity. ❋ Richard (2005)
Wednesday, April 27, 2005 at 02:21 PM as for ratching it up, as you say roger simon does, i refer you, readers, to the ann coulter horrorshow. ❋ Unknown (2005)
By this time, the _Maggie_ was within a hundred yards of the distressed bark and was ratching slowly backward and forward before her. ❋ Gordon [Illustrator] Grant (1918)
Daniels, the two cowboys and Mike Murphy joined him; whereupon Terence took one pair of oars, while Murphy handled the other, and the boat crept out from the steamer and headed directly for the submarine, which had been ratching backward and forward under a dead-slow bell, watching the towering black hulk of the _Narcissus_ rolling idly. ❋ Unknown (1918)
The _Polly's_ galley was entirely hidden under a deckload of shingles and laths in bunches; the after-house was broad and loomed high above the rail in contrast to the mere cubbies which were provided for the other fore-and-afters in the flotilla which came ratching in toward Saturday Cove. ❋ Holman Day (1900)
We were anxious to get on, but the wind blew up so strongly from the south-west that we could have made no headway without ratching all the time to windward, and the sea was over high for our small boat. ❋ John Oxenham (1896)
Moreover, by ratching far enough to the northward to enable the felucca to fetch Barbadoes on the next tack, I should be stretching away in a fairly promising direction for being picked up by one of the many British cruisers that were watching the principal outlets from the Caribbean to the Atlantic. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
I accordingly directed my gaze northward; and for some time my eyes searched that vast expanse of seething whiteness for an unbroken channel leading out into blue water from the lagoon-like sheet of water across which the _Mercury_ was then ratching. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
The demonstrations are ratching up before Tunisia's landmark Oct. 23 election for a constitutional body that will determine the future of this North African nation that overthrew its longtime dictator in January. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The ratching belt clip is pretty standard, though I wouldn't recommend taking advantage of its rotating capability. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There was one comfort -- and only one -- to be found in the condition of affairs that I have endeavoured to indicate, and that was that the brig, heavily pressed as she was by her canvas, was ratching fast through the water on a course that was not only carrying her off the land but also somewhat to the eastward, so that, with the moderating of the gale, or even a slight shift of wind, we might hope to pass clear into the ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
You had no business ratching out of that harbor in the dark. " ❋ Holman Day (1900)
"Right afore the wind, I suppose," says I; "there'll be no ratching with the rags we're going to hoist. ❋ Unknown (1877)
"We are all very close and will remember the great times we had out on the fells, ratching and exploring the outdoors. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Don't eat at that restaurant, it's [ratched].
Have you seen her [beat up] [weave]? It's ratched! ❋ 1GirlieGirl (2013)
[I had] a good ratch in [that box], but I couldn't [find it]. ❋ Withabix (2009)
"Look at that [ratch] over there in [leopard] printed leggings and [multicolored] weave twerking" ❋ DrRatchet (2012)
[My brother] is ratch! ❋ OnE LoVe (2004)
You: "Look [how that] [bitch look] today!"
Me: "Yea, that hoe stay lookin [ratched]!"
Or
You:"Man that girl house was dirty!"
Me:"Yea that shit was pretty ratched." ❋ JML18 (2009)
Ew, that cardigan is [ratch]. Must be from [Cargo Largo].
Oh no, that's ratch. You best swerve on out of here.
You best not be [tweetin] bout me, ain't nobody got time for yo ratch-ass comments. ❋ METALPANTHER7 (2013)
"[Can I] ratch your [boobs]?" ❋ Willkat (2011)
[That girl] is ratch. ❋ Diva2137824 (2016)
-you [saw] them girls [over there] fightin?
-yeh them some ratched ass [hoes]! ❋ DJ PRINCESS KUTZ (2008)
(A [ma nigga] did you smell dat trick?!
Yeah fool, she was smellin [RATCHED] YO!!!)
(Teacher:Ok kids u have a 4 page essay
Boy:Man das some [ratched] ass shit ma nigga!)
Girl my hair was lookin a hot [funky mess] yestaday
I know.... you was lookin ratcheddd!!! ❋ T.Jizzle Baby (2009)
