rowel
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rowel
- /ˈɹoʊəl/
Rhymes with -əʊəl
Where it comes from
From Middle English rowel, rowell, rowelle, from Old French roel, roiele (compare modern French rouelle), from Late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rotella.
noun rowels · rowell
- 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.
- A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit. The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit.
- A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.
verb rowels · roweling · rowelling · roweled · rowelled
- To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid.
- To fit with spurs.
- To apply the spur to. to rowel a horse
- 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.
Translations
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noun small spiked wheel on the end of a spur
| Español | espuela |
|---|---|
| Português | roseta |
| Français | molette |
| Deutsch | Spornrädchen |
| Русский | колёсико шпоры koljósiko špory |
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