单词 | rowelled |
释义 | rowelledroweledadj.1ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > veterinary medicine and surgery > [adjective] > relating to treatment of horses > of horses: treated in specific way rowelled1566 tubed1925 1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. cxxiii. f. 90, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe So as the rowelled place may be in the very mydst thereof. 1595 Lady A. Bacon Let. 15 May (Lambeth MSS 651 f. 102) in W. H. Dixon Personal Hist. Lord Bacon (1861) (modernized spelling) App. II. xii. 381 The rowelled horse I had no mind to indeed, nor the horse Master Spencer rode on. 1757 Lit. Mag. 2 239/1 In the second stage of the disease the rowelled part will swell and then run. 2. Of (the flanks of) a horse: pricked or marked by rowels (rowel n. 3a). Cf. rowel v. 2.In quot. 1924 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [adjective] > having (a) hole(s) > bored, pierced, or perforated > with a sharp-pointed instrument > pricked pointed1440 rowelled1836 pinpricked1936 1836 A. B. Evans Phylactery 15 Has the ferocious heart been tamed to love The beast that serves him; not content to keep In anguish mute his fleshless quivering flank or rowelled side? 1892 E. P. Elmhirst Fox-hound, Forest & Prairie 102 Give me a milk-white steed with his head on the bank and his rowelled flanks laved in mid-stream. 1916 W. R. Foran Border of Blades xiii. 163 ‘Faster!’ he groaned hoarsely, digging his spurless heels into the pony's rowelled flanks. 1924 R. Campbell Flaming Terrapin ii. 29 Rowelled by that sharp prow to hissing hate, The waves washed round her. 1983 A. Carson Face of Stranger iv. 62 The big car leapt into motion like a cruelly rowelled horse, driving Rane back into her seat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rowelledroweledadj.2 Provided with a rowel. See rowel n.Earliest in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [adjective] > relating to (use of) spur > relating to or furnished with rowel rowelled1608 1608 J. Day Law Trickes i. 5 And with blunt rowled Iestes spur-gall his side Till his soule bleede. 1636 W. Sampson Vow Breaker i. i. sig. B2 Well said ould cocke, would thy spurrs were new rowell'd that thou mightst picke out his eyes. 1750 G. Jeffreys Let. 30 Aug. in J. Duncombe Lett. Eminent Persons Deceased (1772) II. cxxii. 165 Laius..lashes Oedipus twice over the head with his rowelled whip. 1788 W. Huntington Spoils taken from Tower London 23 Nothing is more mortifying to a heavy jib horse than a good roweled spur. 1834 J. R. Planché Hist. Brit. Costume 99 The rowelled spur is first seen on the great seal of Henry III. 1888 R. Kipling Conversion Aurelian McCoggin in Plain Tales from Hills 92 The lash that falls, and the curb that galls, and the sting of the rowelled steel. 1934 A. Huxley Beyond Mexique Bay 137 My rowelled heels always clanked together under the creature's belly. 1961 Times 8 July 10/6 This man has a razet in his hand, a hook with three rowelled spurs. 2002 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 13 Feb. 19 It is the terror and pain inflicted by electric prods..and rowelled spurs that make the animals buck. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.11566adj.21608 |
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