rowel

Example Sentences

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

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

The steel scabbards clank; As each rowel is pressed To a horse’s hot flank; And swift is their rush And the wild torrents flow, When it pours from the crag On the valley below.

From How the Flag Became Old Glory by Valentine, A. C.

These gestures executed he touched Little Sorrel with the rowel and, his suite behind him, started off down the street toward the bridge over the Shenandoah.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

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

His booted foot moved, but now rowel points flashed in the sun.

From Rebel Spurs by Norton, Andre