rowel Meaning, Definition & Usage

Row"el noun

Etymology

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.

Definitions

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.

Row"el transitive verb

Wordforms

imperfect & past participle Roweled or Rowelled; present participle & verbal noun Roweling or Rowelling

Definitions

1. (Far.) To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse). Mortimer.