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rowel [rou-uh l] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun a small wheel with radiating points, forming the extremity of a spur. Veterinary Medicine. a piece of leather or the like inserted beneath the skin of a horse or other animal to promote drainage of an infection. verb (used with object), row·eled, row·el·ing or (especially British) row·elled, row·el·ling. to prick or urge with a rowel. Veterinary Medicine. to insert a rowel in. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of rowel 1350–1400; Middle English rowelle Middle French ruelle, Old French roel Late Latin rotella, equivalent to Latin rot(a) wheel + -ella -elle Related formsun·row·eled; especially British un·row·elled, adjective Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Related Words for roweled prod, tease, coerce, harass, hound, provoke, force, propel, move, sting, thrust, arouse, prompt, animate, whip, exhort, irritate, sound, encourage, trigger Examples from the Web for roweled Historical Examples of roweled
It was all one that Archibald tore and tugged at the bit, or roweled him red.
Frank Norris
Meanwhile, the proud Verbeena just roweled that lofty, haughty boy to rags.
Charles Somerville
As Mose roweled him he kicked with both hind feet as if to tear the cinch from his belly.
Hamlin Garland
He roweled Pronto and, with Sam even in the jump, they galloped through the half-ring without opposition.
J. Allan Dunn
British Dictionary definitions for roweled rowel noun a small spiked wheel attached to a spur vet science obsolete a piece of leather or other material inserted under the skin of a horse to act as a seton and allow drainage verb -els, -elling or -elled or US -els, -eling or -eled (tr) to goad (a horse) using a rowel vet science obsolete to insert a rowel in (the skin of a horse) to allow drainage Word Origin for rowel C14: from Old French roel a little wheel, from roe a wheel, from Latin rota Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for roweled rowel n.
“pointed wheel on a spur,” mid-14c., from Old French roelle, roel (Modern French rouelle), “small wheel” (see roulette).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
