rowel
/ˈɹoʊəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I / Perceive 'tis an advantage for a man to vvear ſpurres, / The rovvell of Knight-hood does gingle in the eare of their / Vnderſtanding."
- "The deep and sharp rowels with which Ivanhoe’s heels were now armed, began to make the worthy Prior repent of his courtesy,[…]."
- "The dry desert of my native land, her men grey and gaunt, their spines twisted, their feet shod with rowel and spur."
- "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."
- "He nodded at the Americans. Buena suerte, he said. He put the long rowels of his spurs to the horse and they moved on."
- "The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit."
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”). Doublet of rotella.