Found 2 items, similar to rowel.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: rowel rowel n : a small spiked wheel at the end of a spur [also: rowelling, rowelled]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Rowel Rowel \Row"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Roweledor 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] With sounding whip, and rowels dyed in blood. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 2. A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits. [1913 Webster] The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 3. (Far.) A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery. [1913 Webster]