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rowels

rowels is the plural of rowel.

rowels is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rowel.

Meaning of rowel

Noun

rowel (plural rowels)

  1. A small spiked wheel on the end of a spur of certain types.
    • I / Perceive 'tis an advantage for a man to vvear ſpurres, / The rovvell of Knight-hood does gingle in the eare of their / Vnderſtanding.1632, Iames Shirley [i.e., James Shirley], Changes: Or, Love in a Maze. A Comedie, […], London: […] G. P. for William Cooke, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 3
  2. A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.
    • The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.

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Questions about rowels

What is rowels the plural of?
Rowels is the plural of rowel.

Words near rowels in the dictionary

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

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