rowel
Example Sentences
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The draft language includes an outright ban on “electric prods or shocking devices, flank or bucking straps, wire tie-downs, sharpened or fixed spurs or rowels, and lariats or lassos.”
From Washington Times
Johnny took off his spurs and showed the silversmith a broken rowel.
From Literature
Lee, 6 feet tall with a full head of gray hair, wore a new uniform and a sword with a jeweled hilt, boots with red silk stitching and spurs with rowels.
From Reuters
But he sprang to the right, when the rowel went into his flank, carrying with it the assurance that the game was up.
From Project Gutenberg
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 Project Gutenberg
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