ROWEL Row"el, n. Etym: [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.)
Defn: A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery.
ROWEL
Row"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Roweled or Rowelled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Roweling or Rowelling.] (Far.)
Defn: To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse). Mortimer.
ROWEL BONE
Row"el bone`.
Defn: See rewel bone. [Obs.]
ROWEN Row"en, n. Etym: [Cf. E. rough, OE. row, rowe.] [Called also rowet, rowett, rowings, roughings.]