Hypertext Webster Gateway: "rowel"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rowel \Row"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Roweled}or {Rowelled}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Roweling} or {Rowelling}.] (Far.)
To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the
flesh of a horse). --Mortimer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Rowel \Row"el\, n. [OF. roele, rouele, properly, a little wheel,
F. rouelle collop, slice, LL. rotella a little wheel, dim. of
L. rota a wheel. See {Roll}, and cf. {Rota}.]
1. The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points.
With sounding whip, and rowels dyed in blood.
--Cowper.
2. A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits.
The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit. --Spenser.
3. (Far.) A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the
flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
rowel
n : a small spiked wheel at the end of a spur
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