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Dowel vs Rowel - What's the difference?

dowel | rowel |

In transitive terms the difference between dowel and rowel

is that dowel is to furnish with dowels while rowel is to incite, to goad.

dowel

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.
  • A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from.
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  • (construction) A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may fastened to it.

    • Coordinate terms

    * (pin or block of wood or metal) spline, biscuit, tenon * (construction) anchor, screw anchor (US); wall plug (UK).

    Verb

    (dowell)
  • To fasten together with dowels.
  • To furnish with dowels.
    • A cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.
    (Webster 1913)

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    rowel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur.
  • * 1819', '', '''1833 , ''The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott , Volume 3, page 121,
    • The deep and sharp rowels with which Ivanhoe’s heels were now armed, began to make the worthy Prior repent of his courtesy,.
  • * 1939 , , The Cosmological Eye , page 246,
    • The dry desert of my native land, her men grey and gaunt, their spines twisted, their feet shod with rowel and spur.
  • * 1973 , , page 892,
    • The Lone Ranger will storm in at the head of a posse, rowels tearing blood from the stallion’s white hide, to find his young friend, innocent Dan, swinging from a tree limb by a broken neck.
  • * 1992 , , page 62,
    • He nodded at the Americans. Buena suerte, he said. He put the long rowels of his spurs to the horse and they moved on.
  • A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.
  • * 1590', '', Book 1: ''Knight of the Red Cross'', '''1850 , ''Edmund Spenser's Knight of the Red Cross; or Holiness , page 74,
    • The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit.
  • A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.

    • Verb

  • To use a rowel on something, especially to drain fluid.
  • To incite, to goad.
  • * 1941 , , page 240,
    • 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.

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