rowel
rowel is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits. The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit. Spenser.
- 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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- What is a little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits. The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit. Spenser called?
- What is a roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery called?
- What is to insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse). Mortimer called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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