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rowelling

rowelling is the present participle and gerund of rowel.

Meaning of rowel

Verb

rowel (third-person singular simple present rowels, present participle (US) roweling or (UK) rowelling, simple past and past participle (US) roweled or (UK) rowelled)

  1. (transitive) To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid.
  2. (transitive) To fit with spurs.
  3. (transitive) To apply the spur to.
    • to rowel a horse
  4. (figuratively, transitive) To incite; to goad.
    • He would have been completely ignorant of what was going on if Frank, periodically roweled by the viciously anti-labor stand of the Pittsburgh newspapers, hadn't felt the need of an audience.1941, Thomas Bell, Out of This Furnace, page 240

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Questions about rowelling

What is rowelling the present participle and gerund of?
Rowelling is the present participle and gerund of rowel.

Words near rowelling in the dictionary

  1. roweling-needle
  2. roweling-needles
  3. rowell
  4. Rowella
  5. rowelled
  6. rowelling
  7. rowels
  8. rowen
  9. Rowena
  10. Rowenna
  11. rowens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rowelling (page history and authors); rowel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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