rowel

Example Sentences

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

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

The name of Richard Clyde was to his impatient, jealous spirit, as is the rowel to the fiery steed.

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee

Of course Jack was too game to let on he knew he'd been done, but not too busy to sharpen a rowel for Lory.

From The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Bronson, Edgar Beecher

These gestures executed he touched Little Sorrel with the rowel and, his suite behind him, started off down the street toward the bridge over the Shenandoah.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

A rowel is to be made in the dewlap by taking a skein of hemp, tow, or twisted packthread, a foot long, and as thick as a man's thumb.

From On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment by Bourguignon, Honor?