rowel

• a small spiked wheel at the end of a spur
• The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points
• A little flat ring or wheel on horses´ bits
• A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of horses, answering to a seton in human surgery
• To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the flesh of a horse)

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