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

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

The rowel is one and a half or two inches in diameter, and the points are about twenty-five or thirty inches long.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina

And the young man sprang on the bed, and thrust the rowel of a spur through the laths.

From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Weyman, Stanley J.

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