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

Of course Jack was too game to let on he knew he'd been done, but not too busy to sharpen a rowel for Lory.

From The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Bronson, Edgar Beecher

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

"This waitin'—" Anse sat cross-legged on the bunk next to Drew's, his thumb spinning the rowel of one spur.

From Rebel Spurs by Norton, Andre

It was generally borne pierced with a round hole, and then represents, as its name implies, the rowel of a spur.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various