noun
Meaning 1
A small spiked wheel on the end of a spur of certain types.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
rowel
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/ˈɹoʊəl/
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rhymes with -əʊəl
noun
Meaning 2
A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.
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noun
Meaning 3
A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.
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verb
Meaning 4
To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To fit with spurs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 6
To apply the spur to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- to rowel a horse
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verb
Meaning 7
To incite; to goad.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
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noun
Meaning 8
a small spiked wheel at the end of a spur
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: wheel
History
Etymology
From Middle English rowel, rowell, rowelle, from Old French roel, roiele (compare modern French rouelle), from Late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rotella.
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: колелце на шпора (kolelce na špora) — small spiked wheel on the end of a spur
- Esperanto: spronradeto — small spiked wheel on the end of a spur
- Finnish: kannuksen pyörä — small spiked wheel on the end of a spur
- Finnish: kannuspyörä — small spiked wheel on the end of a spur
- French: molette — small spiked wheel on the end of a spur
- German: Spornrädchen — small spiked wheel on the end of a spur
- Hungarian: sarkantyútaraj — small spiked wheel on the end of a spur
- Hungarian: taraj — small spiked wheel on the end of a spur
- Portuguese: roseta — small spiked wheel on the end of a spur
- Russian: колёсико шпоры (koljósiko špory) — small spiked wheel on the end of a spur
- Spanish: espuela — small spiked wheel on the end of a spur