spur-roweln.
1. The rowel or revolving pricking wheel of a spur. Also in combinations, and in figurative context.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > art of horse-riding > use of hands and legs > using spurs > rowel or spike of spur
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tartriere, the Spurre-rowell-like instrument wherewith Pastissiers make indented iags.
1649 W. Davenant Love & Honour i. i. 45 These bald chinnes are as familiar With their good starrs as with spur-rowells.
a1724 in Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1876) II. 161 Curse on the spur-roll, Confounded be the upper-leather.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. vi. 172 Driving the spur-rowels o' the law into Sir Arthur's sides up to the head to gar him pay it.
1830 S. R. Meyrick Engraved Illustr. 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.
1866 Evening Standard 13 July 6 The more experienced Hungarian Hussars, jingling their monstrous spur-rowels.
2. Heraldry. = mullet n.3 1.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of weapons or armour > [noun] > spur > mullet
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1820 W. Scott Monastery I. Introd. Ep. 37 The arms on the dexter side are those of Glendinning..and on the sinister three spur-rowels for those of Avenel.
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