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rowel

[ rou-uhl ]

noun

  1. a small wheel with radiating points, forming the extremity of a spur.
  2. 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)

roweled, roweling or (especially British) rowelled, rowelling.
  1. to prick or urge with a rowel.
  2. Veterinary Medicine. to insert a rowel in.

rowel

/ ˈ°ù²¹ÊŠÉ™±ô /

noun

  1. a small spiked wheel attached to a spur
  2. 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to goad (a horse) using a rowel
  2. obsolete.
    vet science to insert a rowel in (the skin of a horse) to allow drainage
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of rowel1

1350–1400; Middle English rowelle < Middle French ruelle, Old French roel < Late Latin rotella, equivalent to Latin rot ( a ) wheel + -ella -elle
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of rowel1

C14: from Old French roel a little wheel, from roe a wheel, from Latin rota
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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€

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Beneath this magnificent hat lay a pair of silver spurs with huge gold-plated, star-shaped rowels.

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Johnny took off his spurs and showed the silversmith a broken rowel.

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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.

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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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