Usually means: Spur wheel with radiating points.
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  1. rowel: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rowel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rowel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rowel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rowel: Vocabulary.com
  6. rowel: Wordnik
  7. rowel: Wiktionary
  8. rowel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. rowel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. rowel: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Rowel, rowel: Dictionary.com
  12. rowel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Rowel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Rowel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. rowel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. rowel: Rhymezone
  17. Rowel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. rowel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. rowel: Free Dictionary
  20. rowel: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. rowel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. rowel: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. rowel: Legal dictionary

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  1. rowel: Encyclopedia

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  2. rowel: Medical dictionary

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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.

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