The deep and sharp rowels with which Ivanhoe’s heels were now armed, began to make the worthy Prior repent of his courtesy,[…].
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Rowel
/ˈɹoʊəl/
Synonyms for "rowel" (17 found)
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The dry desert of my native land, her men grey and gaunt, their spines twisted, their feet shod with rowel and spur.
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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.
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He nodded at the Americans. Buena suerte, he said. He put the long rowels of his spurs to the horse and they moved on.
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