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noun

Rowel n.

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

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

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

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rowel" Quotes from Famous Books

... no floor! 'Tis a cockloft above us! See there! And there!" And the young man sprang on the bed, and thrust the rowel of a spur through the laths. La Tribe's expression changed. He rose ...

— Count Hannibal - A Romance of the Court of France • Stanley J. Weyman

... scintillating play of eloquent thought, that enlivened, if it did not kindle, all around it. If you want the real philosophy of it, I will give it to you. The chance thought or expression struck the nervous centre of consciousness, as the rowel of a spur stings the flank of a racer. Away through all the telegraphic radiations of the nervous cords flashed the intelligence that the brain was kindling, and must be fed with something or other, or it would burn ...

— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... madly the rowel Of spur that had never been "won" by him, In the flank of his steed, To accomplish a deed, Such as never before had been done by him; And the battery called Sherman's Was wheeled into line, While the beer-drinking Germans, From Neckar and Rhine, With minie and yager, Came on with a ...

— War Poetry of the South • Various

Words linked to "Rowel" : wheel, spur, gad