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Definition rowel

Etymology

From Middle English rowel, rowell, rowelle, from Old French roel, roiele (compare modern French rouelle), from Late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota (“wheel”).

Noun

rowel (plural rowels)

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.

Verb

rowel (third-person singular simple present rowels, present participle roweling or rowelling, simple past and past participle roweled or rowelled)

1. (transitive) To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid.
2. (transitive) To fit with spurs.
3. (transitive) To apply the spur to.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To incite; to goad.

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