rowel

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

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

His booted foot moved, but now rowel points flashed in the sun.

From Rebel Spurs by Norton, Andre

If the rowel is moderately sharp only, no cruelty can arise, less I maintain than in the use of a whip.

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

Some ladies affect two spurs—one, the right, being fitted with a blank rowel; this is, of course, for appearance sake when dismounted.

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

The steel scabbards clank; As each rowel is pressed To a horse’s hot flank; And swift is their rush And the wild torrents flow, When it pours from the crag On the valley below.

From How the Flag Became Old Glory by Valentine, A. C.

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

She looked into his face in a way that roweled the man.

From Red Fleece by Comfort, Will Levington

But decency did not explain or defend the fact that he roweled his willing pinto all the way, and arrived in a state of mind that was the reverse of felicitation.

From The Fifth Ace by Gage, George W.

Of course, Tom was a prisoner, and there was not a chance of his getting away; still, he could feel delight because of this possibility that roweled his mind.

From Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils by Emerson, Alice B.

It was still another spur roweling me back to the ring of combat.

From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.

Very rarely did The Kid use the spurs, but he used them now, roweling Blizzard desperately.

From Kid Wolf of Texas by Powers, Paul S. (Paul Sylvester)

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 Raine, William MacLeod

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 Titus, Harold

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 Buck, Charles Neville

Under the plates the mail hose show themselves and the heels have rowelled spurs.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various

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 Lathrop, George Parsons

The musical ring of his rowelled spurs ceased as he grasped her hands.

From A Tar-Heel Baron by Holloway, Edward Stratton

"Where are you coming with that cayuse?" demanded young McCrae, and suddenly raked a rowelled heel behind the animal's shoulder.

From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)

A book rowelled the small of Klinker's back as he reclined upon the pillow, and plucking it from beneath him, he glanced at the back of it.

From Queed by Crosby, Raymond Moreau

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

"I've thought about it—a good deal—too," was her simple response, and Boone forced himself on, rowelling his lagging speech with a determined will power.

From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville

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 Farnol, Jeffery

One such rowelling had just been taking place when, on the Sunday morning following the Easter holidays, Dolph Dennison dropped in to see Reed Opdyke.

From The Brentons by Dexter, Wilson C.

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 White, Stewart Edward