rowel

Etymology
From, , , from , (compare modern 🇨🇬), from , diminutive of. .

Noun

 * 1) The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur.
 * 2) A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.
 * 3) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 1: Knight of the Red Cross, 1850, Edmund Spenser's Knight of the Red Cross; or Holiness, page 74,
 * The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit.
 * 1) A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.
 * 1) A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.
 * 2) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 1: Knight of the Red Cross, 1850, Edmund Spenser's Knight of the Red Cross; or Holiness, page 74,
 * The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit.
 * 1) A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.

Derived terms

 * rowel-head

Translations

 * Bulgarian: колелце на шпора
 * Esperanto: spronradeto
 * Finnish: kannuksen pyörä
 * French:
 * German: Spornrädchen
 * Hungarian: sarkantyútaraj,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: колёсико шпоры
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid.
 * 2)  To fit with spurs.
 * 3)  To apply the spur to.
 * to rowel a horse
 * 1)  To incite; to goad.