Rowel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A sharp-toothed wheel inserted into the end of the shank of a spur.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur.
  • v. To use a rowel on something, especially to drain fluid.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points.
  • n. A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits.
  • n. A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery.
  • v. To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse).
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. . A small wheel, ring, or circle.
  • n. The wheel of a horseman's spur, armed with pointed rays.
  • n. A roller on the mouthpiece of an old form of bit for horses.
  • n. In farriery, a seton inserted in the flesh of an animal.
  • n. The spiked wheel of some forms of soil-pulverizers and wheel-harrows.
  • To use the rowel on; put spurs to.
  • In farriery, to apply a rowel to.
  • To furnish with a rowel, as a spur.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a small spiked wheel at the end of a spur
  • Verb Form
    rowelled    rowelling    rowels   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    wheel   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    rowelled    rowelling   
    Form
    roweled    rowelled    roweling    rowelling   
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