rowel

• The rowel was struck deep and the consequences were not considered Subjects have been introduced into this discussion which I should have been glad to have avoided, which it would have been better every way to have avoided. —  A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861
• "Forward, and we shall have them all Every rowel was instantly employed, and the party pushed forward at a gallop. —  The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales
• His spurs are buried rowel-deep, he rides with loosened rein, There's blood upon his charger's flank and foam upon the mane; He speeds him toward the olive-grove, along that shaded hill: God shield the helpless maiden there, if he should mean her ill And suddenly that song has ceased, and suddenly I hear A shriek sent up amid the shade, a shriek--but not of fear. —  Poems
• He decided that a little more hammering right next the rowel was necessary, and bent over the anvil solicitously. —  The Happy Family
• They are of blue steel inlaid with strips of silver, and the rowel is a sort of cogged wheel, from an inch and a half to three inches in diameter. —  Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern

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