rowel

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

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

It is not started by slight scratches, but strike the rowel deep, and there is a purpose in it that nothing can conquer or restrain.

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden

Scarcely had the rowel reached his side, when down he fell, sending me head foremost over his neck into the water.

From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever

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 Honor? Bourguignon

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

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

"You're right!" groaned Nelson, who felt himself roweled by circumstances.

From The Mission of Janice Day by Corinne Turner

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

Usually these legs were clothed in tight-fitting overalls, and his small feet incased in boots of high-grade leather wonderfully roweled.

From Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance by Marcus Horton

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

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

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

From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher

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

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

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

Here, in these desolate barren hills, twenty miles from the nearest human being, it stirred and woke and rowelled him to be moving on.

From McTeague by Frank Norris

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

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

From A Tar-Heel Baron by Edward Stratton Holloway

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

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

For, what great, black horse is this which, despite Carnaby's flailing whip and cruel, rowelling spur, is slowly, surely creeping up with the laboring gray?

From The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol

A rowelling pressure of haste drove him, while snares of trailing creepers, pitfalls blotted into darkness and the thickness of jungle-like undergrowth handicapped him with many stubborn difficulties.

From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck

The rowelling bistoury, employed for the horses, answers better than the saw; but even it occasions so much pain as to cause serious annoyance and obstruction.

From The Dog by Dinks