Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of inserting a rowel.
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- verb Present participle of
rowel .
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Examples
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Very rarely did The Kid use the spurs, but he used them now, roweling Blizzard desperately.
Kid Wolf of Texas 1938
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Anger burned high in him, and like the bully he was he took it out of his good horse by roweling its sides savagely.
Oh, You Tex! William MacLeod Raine 1912
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It was still another spur roweling me back to the ring of combat.
The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912
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An obsession of haste spurred her with the roweling of suspense and with the companionship of her troubled thoughts she walked on and on.
A Pagan of the Hills Charles Neville Buck 1904
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The old schooner scrunched her way past the _Olenia_, roweling the yacht's glossy paint and smearing her with tar and slime.
Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900
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"Eh! take him to barracks and summon the surgeon," said he, and, roweling the old gray, he galloped back to
The end of an era, 1899
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a long minute like an aspen, and sank to a tame surrender, despite the sharp spurs roweling its bloody sides.
Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West William MacLeod Raine 1912
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