rowel
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Johnny took off his spurs and showed the silversmith a broken rowel.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
But he sprang to the right, when the rowel went into his flank, carrying with it the assurance that the game was up.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett
His booted foot moved, but now rowel points flashed in the sun.
From Rebel Spurs by Andre Norton
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 Nannie Lambert
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 A. C. Valentine
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
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
The dugout of Tucu leaped away like a roweled horse.
From The Pathless Trail by Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel
It was all one that Archibald tore and tugged at the bit, or roweled him red.
From The Surrender of Santiago An Account of the Historic Surrender of Santiago to General Shafter, July 17, 1898 by Frank Norris
It was still another spur roweling me back to the ring of combat.
From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher
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
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
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
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
"Oh, get along, you dromedary!" she muttered and rowelled her horse sharply.
From The Last Straw by Harold Titus
Saint Peter's had never doubted the force or the efficiency of its doctrines; but it was at least a generation since it had been so rowelled with their points.
From The Brentons by Wilson C. Dexter
"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 Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe
Around you smoky clouds like ogres tower; The earth is rowelled deep with spurs of flame, And on your helmet stones and ashes shower.
From Rhymes of a Red Cross Man by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
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 Charles Neville Buck
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
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
But Tom horse, facing homeward, needed none of the rowelling that he had demanded on the way up.
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Honoré Morrow
