Category:Rowel

Row"el, n. Etym: [of. roele, rouele, properly, a little wheel, f. Rouelle collop, slice, ll. rotella a little wheel, dim. of l. rota a Wheel. See roll, and cf. Rota.]

1. The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points. With sounding whip, and rowels dyed in blood. Cowper.

2. A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits. The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit. Spenser.

3. (far.)

Defn: a roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, Answering to a seton in human surgery.

Rowel Row"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Roweled or rowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Roweling or rowelling.] (far.)

Defn: to insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh Of a horse). Mortimer.