rowel
əl noun
1.
a small wheel with radiating points, forming the extremity of a spur. See illus. under spur1.
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
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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| —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] | |
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rowel
"pointed wheel on a spur," 1344, from O.Fr. roelle "small wheel" (see roulette).
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