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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
/ ˈ°ù²¹ÊŠÉ™±ô /
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
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³Ü²Ô·°ù´Ç·Éıô±ð»å especially British ³Ü²Ô·°ù´Ç·Éıô±ô±ð»å adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of rowel1
Example Sentences
The draft language includes an outright ban on “electric prods or shocking devices, flank or bucking straps, wire tie-downs, sharpened or fixed spurs or rowels, and lariats or lassos.â€
Beneath this magnificent hat lay a pair of silver spurs with huge gold-plated, star-shaped rowels.
Johnny took off his spurs and showed the silversmith a broken rowel.
Lee, 6 feet tall with a full head of gray hair, wore a new uniform and a sword with a jeweled hilt, boots with red silk stitching and spurs with rowels.
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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