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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
rowel .
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Examples
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I was interested to know the outcome of that doomed drifting of our forty great wagons across a desolate and hostile land, and I was not at all interested in what came of the mangy hermit with his rock-roweled ribs and stinking water-skin.
Chapter 12 2010
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Hack flicked his roweled spur into the ribs of his Appaloosa, leaned into the pommel and tightened his legs at the same time, and felt the power of the horse swell up under him.
The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010
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Nodding, the messenger dashed to his unicorn, sprang aboard, roweled it with his spurs, and went off like a crossbow quarrel.
Advance and Retreat Turtledove, Harry 2002
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His deeply roweled silver spurs jangled unevenly as he staggered along and his Mexican sombrero lay canted crookedly down over his face, adding to his air of disconsolate drunkenness.
Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000
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The big bird sat its roweled perch there, immobile as the falcon, still immature but showing in every line a stength that made the falcon seem a toy.
Nightside The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1993
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He must have roweled him all the way from Bexar, Son said.
TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989
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He felt the Spanish roweled spur bite into his forehead, and he fell sprawling in the red dust, his nose ringing with pain.
TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989
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He must have roweled him all the way from Bexar, Son said.
TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989
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He felt the Spanish roweled spur bite into his forehead, and he fell sprawling in the red dust, his nose ringing with pain.
TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989
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He must have roweled him all the way from Bexar, Son said.
TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989
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