| 单词 | rowel |
| 释义 | rowel[ rou-uhl ] / ˈraʊ əl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR rowel ON THESAURUS.COM nouna small wheel with radiating points, forming the extremity of a spur. Veterinary Medicine. a piece of leather or the like inserted beneath the skin of a horse or other animal to promote drainage of an infection. verb (used with object), row·eled, row·el·ing or (especially British) row·elled, row·el·ling.to prick or urge with a rowel. Veterinary Medicine. to insert a rowel in. Origin of rowel1350–1400; Middle English rowelle<Middle French ruelle,Old French roel<Late Latin rotella, equivalent to Latin rot(a) wheel + -ella-elle OTHER WORDS FROM rowelun·row·eled; especially British un·row·elled, adjectiveWords nearby rowelrowboat, rowdy, rowdyish, rowdyism, Rowe, rowel, rowen, Rowena, row house, rowing boat, rowing machine Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for rowelBritish Dictionary definitions for rowelrowel / (ˈraʊəl) / nouna small spiked wheel attached to a spur vet science obsolete a piece of leather or other material inserted under the skin of a horse to act as a seton and allow drainage verb -els, -elling or -elled or US -els, -eling or -eled (tr)to goad (a horse) using a rowel vet science obsolete to insert a rowel in (the skin of a horse) to allow drainage Word Origin for rowelC14: from Old French roel a little wheel, from roe a wheel, from Latin rota Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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