English Dictionary

rowel

/ˈɹoʊəl/

noun

The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur. / 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.

He wore a rowel on his spur.

意味（1）

The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur.

The deep and sharp rowels with which Ivanhoe’s heels were now armed, began to make the worthy Prior repent of his courtesy, […] .

意味（2）

A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.

The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit.

意味（3）

A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.