rowel

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.”

Beneath this magnificent hat lay a pair of silver spurs with huge gold-plated, star-shaped rowels.

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

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.

But he sprang to the right, when the rowel went into his flank, carrying with it the assurance that the game was up.