Sekirov Dictionary

rowel

/ˈɹoʊəl/

verb 4
noun 3
forms 5

verb4

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To apply the spur to.
- When the first dogs barked Glanton roweled his horse forward and they came out of the trees and across the dry scrub with the long necks of the horses leaning out of the dust avid as hounds […]. — 1985
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(figurative) To incite; to goad.
- He would have been completely ignorant of what was going on if Frank, periodically roweled by the viciously anti-labor stand of the Pittsburgh newspapers, hadn't felt the need of an audience. — 1941
To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid.
To fit with spurs.

noun3

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A small spiked wheel on the end of a spur of certain types.
- I / Perceive 'tis an advantage for a man to vvear spurres, / The rovvell of Knight-hood does gingle in the eare of their / Vnderstanding. — 1632
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A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.
- The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit. — 1590
A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.

forms

roweled · rowelled · roweling · rowelling · rowels

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