Rowelled vs Roweled - What's the difference?
rowelled | roweled |
(rowel)
The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur.
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* 1939 , , The Cosmological Eye ,
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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 ,
A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.
To use a rowel on something, especially to drain fluid.
To incite, to goad.
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In en-past of|rowel terms the difference between rowelled and roweled
is that rowelled is (rowel) while roweled is (rowel).As verbs the difference between rowelled and roweled
is that rowelled is (rowel) while roweled is (rowel).rowelled
English
Verb
(head)rowel
English
Noun
(en noun)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,.
page 246,
- The dry desert of my native land, her men grey and gaunt, their spines twisted, their feet shod with rowel and spur.
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.
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.
page 74,
- The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit.
Verb
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.
