What does "rowel" mean?
Rowel: A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits. The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit. Spenser.
Additional senses
- 2.(Far.) A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery.
- 3.To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse). Mortimer.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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