rowel

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A small spiked wheel on the end of a spur of certain types.
2. noun A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.
3. noun A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.
4. verb To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid.
5. verb To fit with spurs.
6. verb To apply the spur to.

   to rowel a horse

7. verb To incite; to goad.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Rudyard Kipling to this entry?)

Similar words

spur spur-wheel mullet rowel-head spole spur gear spiker rockwheel sprocket roulette

Often followed by

of spur spurs and i l friers to

Word family

roweled roweling rowelled rowelling rowels