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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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