ROWEL

rowel

(noun) a small spiked wheel at the end of a spur

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

rowel (plural rowels)

The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur.

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.

Verb

rowel (third-person singular simple present rowels, present participle rowelling or roweling, simple past and past participle rowelled or roweled)

(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.

Anagrams

• Lower, lower, owler

Source: Wiktionary


Row"el, n. Etym: [OF. roele, rouele, properly, a little wheel, F. rouelle collop, slice, LL. rotella a little wheel, dim. of L. rota a wheel. See Roll, and cf. Rota.]

1. The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points. With sounding whip, and rowels dyed in blood. Cowper.

2. A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits. The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit. Spenser.

3. (Far.)

Definition: A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery.

Row"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Roweled or Rowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Roweling or Rowelling.] (Far.)

Definition: To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse). Mortimer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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