Meaning of Rowel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur.
2. A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.
3. A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.

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Examples

“The deep and sharp rowels with which Ivanhoe’s heels were now armed, began to make the worthy Prior repent of his courtesy,[…].”

“The dry desert of my native land, her men grey and gaunt, their spines twisted, their feet shod with rowel and spur.”

“The Lone Ranger will storm in at the head of a posse, rowels tearing blood from the stallion’s white hide, to find his young friend, innocent Dan, swinging from a tree limb by a broken neck.”

“He nodded at the Americans. Buena suerte, he said. He put the long rowels of his spurs to the horse and they moved on.”

“1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 1: Knight of the Red Cross, 1850, Edmund Spenser's Knight of the Red Cross; or Holiness, page 74, The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit.”

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