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Rowel

Rowel Meaning & Definition
Rowel Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Rowel?

[n] a small spiked wheel at the end of a spur

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See Also | gad | spur | wheel

Rowel In Webster's Dictionary

\Row"el\, n. [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.) 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.) To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse). --Mortimer.

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