Rowel /(?)/

1. The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points.

   With sounding whip, and rowels dyed in blood.

2. A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits.

   The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit.

3. A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery. (Far.)

imp. & p. p. Roweled; p. pr. & vb. n. Roweling

1. To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse). (Far.)