rowel

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small spiked wheel on the end of a spur of certain types.
    — I / Perceive 'tis an advantage for a man to vvear ſpurres, / The rovvell of Knight-hood does gingle in the eare of their / Vnderſtanding.
  2. A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.
    — The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit.
  3. A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.
动词 v.
  1. To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid. transitive
  2. To fit with spurs. transitive
  3. To apply the spur to. transitive
    — to rowel a horse
  4. To incite; to goad. figuratively,transitive
    — He would have been completely ignorant of what was going on if Frank, periodically roweled by the viciously anti-labor stand of the Pittsburgh newspapers, hadn't felt the need of an audience.

词形变化

rowels plural rowell alternative rowels present,singular,third-person roweling US,participle,present rowelling UK,participle,present roweled US,participle,past roweled US,past rowelled UK,participle,past rowelled UK,past rowell alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
rowel-head

词源

词源 1
From Middle English rowel, rowell, rowelle, from Old French roel, roiele (compare modern French rouelle), from Late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rotella.
词源 2
From Middle English rowel, rowell, rowelle, from Old French roel, roiele (compare modern French rouelle), from Late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rotella.
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