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- Rowel - n. - The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points.
- Rowel - n. - A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits.
- Rowel - n. - A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery.
- Rowel - v. t. - To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse).
- Rowel bone - - See rewel bone.
- Roweled - imp. & p. p. - of Rowel
- Roweling - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Rowel
- Rowelled - - of Rowel
- Rowelling - - of Rowel
- Spur-shell - n. - Any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur.
- Spur-royal - n. - A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings.