rowel 的 2 个定义
- a small wheel with radiating points, forming the extremity of a spur.
- Veterinary Medicine. a piece of leather or the like inserted beneath the skin of a horse or other animal to promote drainage of an infection.
row·eled, row·el·ing or row·elled, row·el·ling.
- to prick or urge with a rowel.
- Veterinary Medicine. to insert a rowel in.
rowel 近义词
等同于 goad
更多rowel例句
- The rowel is one and a half or two inches in diameter, and the points are about twenty-five or thirty inches long.
- The spurs were also richly gilded, the shank and rowel representing the thistle, and were the gift of the drummer-boys.
- In an abandon he leaned far forward over his saddle, the rowel of his spur dug viciously into his horse's flank.
- At the heel of one of his moccasins was buckled a huge iron spur, with a rowel five or six inches in diameter.
- But he sprang to the right, when the rowel went into his flank, carrying with it the assurance that the game was up.