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rowel
row·el
/
ˈraʊ
əl
/
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[
rou
-
uh
l
]
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noun,
verb,
row·eled,
row·el·ing
or
(
especially British
)
row·elled,
row·el·ling.
noun
1.
a small wheel with radiating points, forming the extremity of a spur. See illus. under
spur
1
.
2.
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)
3.
to prick or urge with a rowel.
4.
Veterinary Medicine
.
to insert a rowel in.
Origin:
1350–1400;
Middle English
rowelle
<
Middle French
ruelle,
Old French
roel
<
Late Latin
rotella,
equivalent to
Latin
rot
(
a
) wheel +
-ella
-elle
Related forms
un·row·eled,
adjective
un·row·elled,
adjective
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rowel
(ˈraʊəl)
—
n
1.
a small spiked wheel attached to a spur
2.
obsolete
vet science
a piece of leather or other material inserted under the skin of a horse to act as a seton and allow drainage
—
vb
,
-els
,
-elling
,
-elled
,
-els
,
-eling
,
-eled
3.
to goad (a horse) using a rowel
4.
obsolete
vet science
to insert a rowel in (the skin of a horse) to allow drainage
[C14: from Old French
roel
a little wheel, from
roe
a wheel, from Latin
rota
]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
rowel
"pointed wheel on a spur," 1344, from O.Fr. roelle "small wheel" (see
roulette
).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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