rowel

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

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

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 Mary Johnston

It is reddish, rounded at the toe, and carries a spur at least a pound in weight, with a rowel three inches in diameter!

From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart

It is less a Great Adventure, perhaps, but, on the other hand, the double-pointed tooth of Anxiety does not rowel quite so often at the core of your heart....

From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher

The rowel is one and a half or two inches in diameter, and the points are about twenty-five or thirty inches long.

From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Thomasina Ross

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

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 dugout of Tucu leaped away like a roweled horse.

From The Pathless Trail by Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel

Hike it, cowboys, For the range away On the back of a bronc of steel, With a careless flirt Of the raw-hide quirt And a dig of a roweled heel!

From Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by Various

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cursing the ancestry of such heartless jokers, Elias rowelled his horse's flanks with the sharp corners of his stirrups, and went off at a furious gallop.

From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall

The silence seems a solid thing, shot through with wolfish woe; And rowelled by the eager stars the skies vault vastly back, And man seems but a little mite on that weird-lit plateau.

From Rhymes of a Rolling Stone by Robert W. (Robert William) Service

Now every bridle is grasped, every sword hilt in grip, and the rowelled heels are ready to dash into the horses' flanks at the first note of the trumpet blast.

From The Young Priest's Keepsake by Michael Phelan

Pard was grunting now, but Douglas rowelled him and pushed on until he saw the antelope kneeling in the lee of an outcropping of rock.

From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow

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

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

"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 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

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