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Definition of 'rowel'English
Noun
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The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur.
* 1819', '', '''1833 , ''The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott , Volume 3, page 121 ,
- The deep and sharp rowels with which Ivanhoe’s heels were now armed, began to make the worthy Prior repent of his courtesy,.
* 1939 , , The Cosmological Eye , page 246 ,
- The dry desert of my native land, her men grey and gaunt, their spines twisted, their feet shod with rowel and spur.
* 1973 , , page 892 ,
- The Lone Ranger will storm in at the head of a posse, rowels tearing blood from the stallion’s white hide, to find his young friend, innocent Dan, swinging from a tree limb by a broken neck.
* 1992 , , page 62 ,
- He nodded at the Americans. Buena suerte, he said. He put the long rowels of his spurs to the horse and they moved on.
A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.
* 1590', '', Book 1: ''Knight of the Red Cross'', '''1850 , ''Edmund Spenser's Knight of the Red Cross; or Holiness , page 74 ,
- The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit.
A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.
Verb
To use a rowel on something, especially to drain fluid.
To incite, to goad.
* 1941 , , page 240 ,
- He would have been completely ignorant of what was going on if Frank, periodically roweled by the viciously anti-labor stand of the Pittsburgh newspapers, hadn't felt the need of an audience.
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