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spur-rowel
Also 7 -rowl, 8 Sc. -roll.
[f. spur n.1 + rowel n.]
1. The rowel or revolving pricking wheel of a spur. Also Comb., and in fig. context.
1611Cotgr., Tartriere, the Spurre-rowell-like instrument wherewith Pastissiers make indented iags. 1649Davenant Love & Hon. i. i. 45 These bald chinnes are as familiar With their good starrs as with spur-rowells. a1724in Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1876) II. 161 Curse on the spur-roll, Confounded be the upper-leather. 1816Scott Antiq. xxi, Driving the spur-rowels o' the law up to the head into Sir Arthur's sides to gar him pay it. 1830Skelton Meyrick's Antient Arms & Armour II. Pl. lxxxi, Spur-rowels were never of six points before the reign of Henry VI, nor of five till that of Charles I. 1866Even. Standard 13 July 6 The more experienced Hungarian Hussars, jingling their monstrous spur-rowels.
2. Her. = mullet2 1.
1820Scott Monast. Introd. Ep., The arms on the dexter side are those of Glendinning,..and on the sinister three spur-rowels for those of Avenel. |