A rowel is the point of a spur. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
One still had its star rowel, but the other had been broken off. From Wordnik.com. [Wizard and Glass]
The others, limping and foot-sore, no longer responded to quirt and rowel. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
So, he's going to have to rowel up the crowd and prosecute that case against John McCain. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2008] Reference
In extreme cases, I also rowel in the breast and hind legs, to extract the corruption and remove the swelling. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses] Reference
I measured one which was six inches in the diameter of the rowel, and the rowel itself contained upwards of thirty points. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
They were still a hundred paces away and would not rowel their horses to the gallop till they were very close to their target. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
Wild with his wrong, he struck the rowel deep into the flank of his wading horse, and in scorn of the depth drove him up the river. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
Only then did the two-man picquet of Cazadores which had been posted at the brink of the dead ground rowel their horses back to the city. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
Dig your spurs in my body up to the rowel, draw your sword, and keep yourself ready, for we shall have to leap over both bridge and dragon. From Wordnik.com. [The Violet Fairy Book] Reference
I had no spurs, neither was my horse one to need the rowel. From Wordnik.com. [The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906.] Reference
Now ride, now ride, Guarinos -- nor lance nor rowel spare. From Wordnik.com. [Mediaeval Tales] Reference
The rowel tears his charger's flanks until they glisten red. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. I. I. Norman Maurice, a Tragedy; II. Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea; III. Tales and Traditions of the South; IV. The City of the Silent] Reference
His spurs are buried rowel-deep, he rides with loosened rein. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
The rowel was in his flank again, and the scourge at his back. From Wordnik.com. [Blix] Reference
And deeply in the charger's flanks, the rashing rowel tore. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. I. I. Norman Maurice, a Tragedy; II. Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea; III. Tales and Traditions of the South; IV. The City of the Silent] Reference
Necessity plunged spur and rowel into him, he knew not his own paces. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)] Reference
A few horse-hairs twisted and caught in the sharp points of the rowel. From Wordnik.com. [Susy, a story of the Plains] Reference
Occasionally the rider touched its flank with the sharp rowel of a spur. From Wordnik.com. [A Man Four-Square] Reference
Why should she show this eager excitement, because of a lost spur rowel?. From Wordnik.com. [Six Feet Four] Reference
He lifted the wooden stirrup and touched with his finger the rowel marks. From Wordnik.com. [Sawtooth Ranch] Reference
The rowel of his spur rattled as he jerked his foot up and down at the ankle. From Wordnik.com. [A Tar-Heel Baron] Reference
Reginald, and methought there was something amiss with one rowel of the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Lances of Lynwood] Reference
On either side of the rowel, an inch and a half in diameter, little bells dangled. From Wordnik.com. [Fagots from the campfire,] Reference
Richard Clyde was to his impatient, jealous spirit, as is the rowel to the fiery steed. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author] Reference
And then one of the advance-guard wheeled his horse and drove his spurs home rowel-deep. From Wordnik.com. [Told in the East] Reference
At the clank of spur-chain and rowel Struve came hastily into the hallway from his office. From Wordnik.com. [The Bells of San Juan] Reference
Once more the rowel was in his flanks, once more an unseen hand reined him toward the east. From Wordnik.com. [McTeague] Reference
He ignored her and set about extricating a spur rowel from the fabric of the bright blue cloak. From Wordnik.com. [Man to Man] Reference
And at last she fell, and rose no more, showing no sign of life under the whip and the spur-rowel. From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
It had lodged against the rowel of a spur which he found the day before and dropped in his pocket. From Wordnik.com. [Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865] Reference
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