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rowel


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rowel  \Row"el\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Roweled}or  {Rowelled};  p. 
  pr  &  vb  n.  {Roweling}  or  {Rowelling}.]  (Far.) 
  To  insert  a  rowel,  or  roll  of  hair  or  silk,  into  (as  the 
  flesh  of  a  horse).  --Mortimer. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Rowel  \Row"el\,  n.  [OF.  roele,  rouele,  properly,  a  little  wheel, 
  F.  rouelle  collop,  slice,  LL  rotella  a  little  wheel,  dim.  of 
  L.  rota  a  wheel.  See  {Roll},  and  cf  {Rota}.] 
  1.  The  little  wheel  of  a  spur,  with  sharp  points. 
 
  With  sounding  whip,  and  rowels  dyed  in  blood. 
  --Cowper. 
 
  2.  A  little  flat  ring  or  wheel  on  horses'  bits. 
 
  The  iron  rowels  into  frothy  foam  he  bit.  --Spenser. 
 
  3.  (Far.)  A  roll  of  hair,  silk,  etc.,  passed  through  the 
  flesh  of  horses,  answering  to  a  seton  in  human  surgery. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  rowel 
  n  :  a  small  spiked  wheel  at  the  end  of  a  spur 




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