Usually means: Piercing skin with spiked wheel.
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  1. rowelling: Merriam-Webster
  2. rowelling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rowelling: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rowelling: Vocabulary.com
  5. rowelling: Wiktionary
  6. Rowelling, rowelling: Dictionary.com
  7. Rowelling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Rowelling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. rowelling: FreeDictionary.org
  10. rowelling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rowelling: Encyclopedia

(Note: See rowel as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (rowel)

noun:  The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur.
noun:  A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.
noun:  A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.
verb:  (transitive) To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid.
verb:  (transitive) To fit with spurs.
verb:  (transitive) To apply the spur to.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To incite; to goad.
▸ Also see rowel


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