rowel

Johnny took off his spurs and showed the silversmith a broken rowel.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

Row′el-head, the axis on which a rowel turns; Row′eling-need′le, a needle used for inserting a rowel or seton; Row′eling-scis′sors, a farrier's instrument for inserting rowels; Row′el-spur, a spur having several radiating points.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

I should certainly prefer a spur with a rowel as "Southern Cross" recommends, but would it not be apt to tear the habit?

From Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes by Nannie Lambert

The gray wool shirt was wrinkled and stained by weather and wear, the roomy corduroy trousers were worn from saddle chafing, the big spurs were rusted of rowel and shank.

From Trail's End by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

If the rowel is moderately sharp only, no cruelty can arise, less I maintain than in the use of a whip.

From Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes by Nannie Lambert

What roweled the independents was their firm conviction that the scheduled lines could do the job only with the help of their Government "subsidies" in carrying air mail.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hart roweled Mondale from end to end of the country, leaving the Democratic candidate wounded and bleeding.

From Time Magazine Archive

As Mose roweled him he kicked with both hind feet as if to tear the cinch from his belly.

From The Eagle's Heart by Hamlin Garland

Of course, Tom was a prisoner, and there was not a chance of his getting away; still, he could feel delight because of this possibility that roweled his mind.

From Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils by Alice B. Emerson

She looked into his face in a way that roweled the man.

From Red Fleece by Will Levington Comfort

Then another rider was on the trail: Tom Beck, roweling his horse, fanning his shoulders with the rein ends, crying aloud to him for speed, his gun in his holster, a useless thing.

From The Last Straw by Harold Titus

An obsession of haste spurred her with the roweling of suspense and with the companionship of her troubled thoughts she walked on and on.

From A Pagan of the Hills by Charles Neville Buck

Very rarely did The Kid use the spurs, but he used them now, roweling Blizzard desperately.

From Kid Wolf of Texas by Paul S. (Paul Sylvester) Powers

It was still another spur roweling me back to the ring of combat.

From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher

The thought of it spurred him every waking hour, roweling his wounded pride cruelly.

From Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine

Under the plates the mail hose show themselves and the heels have rowelled spurs.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various

The silence seems a solid thing, shot through with wolfish woe; And rowelled by the eager stars the skies vault vastly back, And man seems but a little mite on that weird-lit plateau.

From Rhymes of a Rolling Stone by Robert W. (Robert William) Service

On our left was an impassable hedge of small trees, crowning a heavy drop into the field outside the wood; our faces were rowelled by the branches of young spruce firs.

From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross

Pard was grunting now, but Douglas rowelled him and pushed on until he saw the antelope kneeling in the lee of an outcropping of rock.

From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow

His anger rowelled him on, and when he reached the opposite shore of the lake he was obliged to wait for the younger man to come floundering and panting up to him.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day

What no system can bear indefinitely is the continual rowelling of its vitals by those who are trying to get rich.

From Time Magazine Archive

A rowelling pressure of haste drove him, while snares of trailing creepers, pitfalls blotted into darkness and the thickness of jungle-like undergrowth handicapped him with many stubborn difficulties.

From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck

For, what great, black horse is this which, despite Carnaby's flailing whip and cruel, rowelling spur, is slowly, surely creeping up with the laboring gray?

From The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol

Slingsby is plying his whip, Carnaby is rowelling savagely, yet, neck and neck, the sorrel and the gray race for the jump, with Barnabas and the Marquis behind.

From The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol

The red-sashed, silver-spurred Buck Bellew reined in closer to his companions, rowelling his little active "paint" horse as he did so, till it jumped and curvetted.

From The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings by Margaret Burnham