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

It is reddish, rounded at the toe, and carries a spur at least a pound in weight, with a rowel three inches in diameter!

From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.

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

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.

He had found that men might growl at being treated "like dogs" but to rowel the human soul it was far better to act as though they did not exist at all.

From Command by McFee, William