different between rowen vs rowel

English

Alternative forms

• roughings
• rowet, rowett
• rowings

Etymology

Compare rough.

Noun

rowen (plural rowens)

1. A second crop of hay; aftermath.
2. A stubble field left unploughed until late in the autumn, so that it can be cropped by cattle.

   • For the wintering of cattle, about September you must turn them out that you design to keep up for a winter or a spring market, and your cows, that give milk into your rowens, till snow or a hard frost comes, and they will need no fodder.

Translations

Anagrams

• owner, rewon, worne

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English r?wan, from Proto-Germanic *r?an?.

Alternative forms

• rowe, rouwen, rowyn, reowen

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?u??n/

Verb

rowen

1. To row; paddle (use oars to power a seaborne vehicle)
2. To move by rowing or paddling (to move by using oars to power a seaborne vehicle)
3. To move in the water; to paddle or splash.
4. To go, travel, journey or voyage

Conjugation

Related terms

• rother

Descendants

• English: row
• Scots: row

References

• “rouen, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-8.

Etymology 2

From rewe (“row”) +? -en.

Alternative forms

• rowe, rewen, rewe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?u??n/, /?r?u??n/

Verb

rowen

1. To shine; to emit light.

Conjugation

References

• “reuen, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-8.

Etymology 3

Verb

rowen

1. Alternative form of rewen (“to regret”)

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)

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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)

1. (transitive) To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid.
2. (transitive) To fit with spurs.
3. (transitive) To apply the spur to.

   to rowel a horse

4. (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.

Translations

Anagrams

• Lower, lower, owler