rowel

Johnny took off his spurs and showed the silversmith a broken rowel.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

The gray wool shirt was wrinkled and stained by weather and wear, the roomy corduroy trousers were worn from saddle chafing, the big spurs were rusted of rowel and shank.

From Trail's End by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

The reason of this charge being called the spur fire is, because the sparks it yields have a great resemblance to the rowel of a spur, from whence it takes its name.

From Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments by Unknown

It was generally borne pierced with a round hole, and then represents, as its name implies, the rowel of a spur.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

The rowel pin is a screw pin; thus the rowel can be changed at pleasure, and a sharp or a blunt one fitted as is required by the horse one rides.

From Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes by Nannie Lambert

What roweled the independents was their firm conviction that the scheduled lines could do the job only with the help of their Government "subsidies" in carrying air mail.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hart roweled Mondale from end to end of the country, leaving the Democratic candidate wounded and bleeding.

From Time Magazine Archive

Surer at least of his visible audience, he roweled into the subject of the moment.

From Lonesome Town by Ethel Dorrance

As Mose roweled him he kicked with both hind feet as if to tear the cinch from his belly.

From The Eagle's Heart by Hamlin Garland

He roweled Pronto and, with Sam even in the jump, they galloped through the half-ring without opposition.

From Rimrock Trail by Joseph Allan Dunn

The thought of it spurred him every waking hour, roweling his wounded pride cruelly.

From Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine

Then another rider was on the trail: Tom Beck, roweling his horse, fanning his shoulders with the rein ends, crying aloud to him for speed, his gun in his holster, a useless thing.

From The Last Straw by Harold Titus

The old schooner scrunched her way past the Olenia, roweling the yacht's glossy paint and smearing her with tar and slime.

From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day

Far to the west a faint report was heard and Pete knew that Skinny was roweling the lathered sides of his straining horse.

From Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence E. Mulford

An obsession of haste spurred her with the roweling of suspense and with the companionship of her troubled thoughts she walked on and on.

From A Pagan of the Hills by Charles Neville Buck

On our left was an impassable hedge of small trees, crowning a heavy drop into the field outside the wood; our faces were rowelled by the branches of young spruce firs.

From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross

For, as wakening drums, Your voice shall set his blood stirring;   His heart shall grow strong like the main    When the rowelled winds are spurring,     And the broad tides landward strain.

From Dreams and Days: Poems by George Parsons Lathrop

He had been leaning against the front wall of the National, thoughtfully removing some more of its paint by scraping it with the big rowelled Mexican spurs which he affected.

From The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings by Margaret Burnham

I rowelled your horse and he thundered on, While in my arms you cuddled, and sighed; And I kissed your hair and lips—and lied When you asked if the coming light was the dawn?

From With the Colors Songs of the American Service by Everard Jack Appleton

He was as well here as elsewhere until some substantial reason or some inner spur rowelled him into action.

From The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair

What no system can bear indefinitely is the continual rowelling of its vitals by those who are trying to get rich.

From Time Magazine Archive

Slingsby is plying his whip, Carnaby is rowelling savagely, yet, neck and neck, the sorrel and the gray race for the jump, with Barnabas and the Marquis behind.

From The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol

But Tom horse, facing homeward, needed none of the rowelling that he had demanded on the way up.

From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow

At that moment Lord Darby dashed up, his horse blown, its sides bloody with rowelling and flecked with foam.

From Beatrix of Clare by Clarence F. Underwood

It was really quite extraordinary how much was accomplished under the nagging spur of weather conditions and the cruel rowelling of Thorpe.

From The Blazed Trail by Stewart Edward White