Rowel
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɹoʊəl/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Rowel is a noun meaning A small spiked wheel on the end of a spur of certain types.
Meaning
A small spiked wheel on the end of a spur of certain types.
More Meanings
- A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.
- A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.
- (transitive) To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid.
- (transitive) To fit with spurs.
- (transitive) To apply the spur to.
- (transitive, figurative) To incite; to goad.
Example Sentences
to rowel a horse
The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit.
The dry desert of my native land, her men grey and gaunt, their spines twisted, their feet shod with rowel and spur.
He nodded at the Americans. Buena suerte, he said. He put the long rowels of his spurs to the horse and they moved on.
Word Forms
- rowels
- rowell
- roweling
- rowelling
- roweled
- rowelled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include spur, spur-wheel, mullet, rowel-head, spole, spiker.
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