Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid. · To fit with spurs. · To apply the spur to. · To incite; to goad.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA small spiked wheel on the end of a spur of certain types. · A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit. · A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.
From Middle English rowel, rowell, rowelle, from Old French roel, roiele (compare modern French rouelle), from Late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rotella.
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