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rowel
English
Etymology
From Middle English rowel, rowell, rowelle, from Old French roel, roiele (compare modern French rouelle), from Late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota (“wheel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??o??l/
- Rhymes: -???l
Noun
rowel (plural rowels)
- The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, 1833, The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 3, page 121,
- The deep and sharp rowels with which Ivanhoe’s heels were now armed, began to make the worthy Prior repent of his courtesy, […] .
- 1939, Henry Miller, The Cosmological Eye, page 246,
- The dry desert of my native land, her men grey and gaunt, their spines twisted, their feet shod with rowel and spur.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, 2013, Gravity's Rainbow, page 892,
- The Lone Ranger will storm in at the head of a posse, rowels tearing blood from the stallion’s white hide, to find his young friend, innocent Dan, swinging from a tree limb by a broken neck.
- 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, page 62,
- He nodded at the Americans. Buena suerte, he said. He put the long rowels of his spurs to the horse and they moved on.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, 1833, The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 3, page 121,
- A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 1: Knight of the Red Cross, 1850, Edmund Spenser's Knight of the Red Cross; or Holiness, page 74,
- The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 1: Knight of the Red Cross, 1850, Edmund Spenser's Knight of the Red Cross; or Holiness, page 74,
- A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.
Translations
Verb
rowel (third-person singular simple present rowels, present participle roweling or rowelling, simple past and past participle roweled or rowelled)
- (transitive) To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid.
- (transitive) To fit with spurs.
- (transitive) To apply the spur to.
- to rowel a horse
- (transitive, figuratively) To incite; to goad.
- 1941, Thomas Bell, Out of This Furnace, page 240,
- He would have been completely ignorant of what was going on if Frank, periodically roweled by the viciously anti-labor stand of the Pittsburgh newspapers, hadn't felt the need of an audience.
- 1941, Thomas Bell, Out of This Furnace, page 240,
Translations
Anagrams
- Lower, lower, owler
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trowel
English
Etymology
From Middle English trowell, trouel, truel, from Middle French truelle, from Late Latin truella, from Classical Latin trulla, the diminutive of trua (“ladle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?a?.?l/
- Rhymes: -a??l
Noun
trowel (plural trowels)
- A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
- A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc.
- A tool used for smoothing a mold.
Derived terms
- pointing-trowel
Translations
Verb
trowel (third-person singular simple present trowels, present participle troweling or trowelling, simple past and past participle troweled or trowelled)
- (transitive) To apply (a substance) with a trowel.
- (transitive) To pass over with a trowel.
- (colloquial, figuratively) To apply something heavily or unsubtly.
- 2014, Steve Rose, "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review", The Guardian, 1 July 2014:
- 2014, Steve Rose, "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review", The Guardian, 1 July 2014:
Translations
Further reading
- trowel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Trowel in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Towler, Wolter
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