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rowel
[ rou-uhl ]
noun
- a small wheel with radiating points, forming the extremity of a spur.
- Veterinary Medicine. a piece of leather or the like inserted beneath the skin of a horse or other animal to promote drainage of an infection.
verb (used with object)
- to prick or urge with a rowel.
- Veterinary Medicine. to insert a rowel in.
rowel
/ ˈraʊəl /
noun
- a small spiked wheel attached to a spur
- obsolete.vet science a piece of leather or other material inserted under the skin of a horse to act as a seton and allow drainage
verb
- to goad (a horse) using a rowel
- obsolete.vet science to insert a rowel in (the skin of a horse) to allow drainage
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Other Words From
- un·roweled especially British un·rowelled adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rowel1
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Example Sentences
The rowel is one and a half or two inches in diameter, and the points are about twenty-five or thirty inches long.
The spurs were also richly gilded, the shank and rowel representing the thistle, and were the gift of the drummer-boys.
In an abandon he leaned far forward over his saddle, the rowel of his spur dug viciously into his horse's flank.
At the heel of one of his moccasins was buckled a huge iron spur, with a rowel five or six inches in diameter.
But he sprang to the right, when the rowel went into his flank, carrying with it the assurance that the game was up.
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