Toweled vs Roweled - What's the difference?
toweled | roweled |
(towel)
A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as a person after a bath.
To hit with a towel.
To dry by using a towel.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To beat with a stick.
(rowel)
The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur.
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A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.
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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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As verbs the difference between toweled and roweled
is that toweled is (towel) while roweled is (rowel).toweled
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(head)towel
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(wikipedia towel) (en noun)Derived terms
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- He got out of the shower and toweled himself dry.
Derived terms
* (l), (l) (Webster 1913)Anagrams
*roweled
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*rowel
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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.