Rowel

Definition of Rowel

Row´el

n.	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.) A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery.
v. t.	1.	(Far.) To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse). [imp. & p. p. Roweled or Rowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Roweling or Rowelling.]

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