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Definitions
a small spiked wheel at the end of a spur
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“I / Perceive 'tis an advantage for a man to vvear ſpurres, / The rovvell of Knight-hood does gingle in the eare of their / Vnderſtanding.”
“The deep and sharp rowels with which Ivanhoe’s heels were now armed, began to make the worthy Prior repent of his courtesy,[…].”
“The dry desert of my native land, her men grey and gaunt, their spines twisted, their feet shod with rowel and spur.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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