Spur adjuncts

Usage examples of rowels.

Indio, mestizo, and africano vaqueros wore spurs as well, but they favored working rowels of honed iron.

His boots were run down at the heel, but he wore jingling spurs with huge rowels, California spurs.

Once more burying the rowels in his horse, in an instant Merton was rapidly speeding on to the great river, lost in vague conjectures concerning this singular individual, and how his own strange adventure might terminate.

Merton, forced into the belief that a longer search was useless, and hurried away by the storm and a faint hope that she might, fearing delay while he was absent, have started for home, alone, now buried the rowels in the animal's sides.

Their spurs had rowels like mill wheels on them, and they all had spanking-new rifles and pistols.

And the rowels of the spurs and part of the horse were without, and Owain with the other part of the horse remained between the two gates, and the inner gate was closed, so that Owain could not go thence.

He had apparently been out riding because he was wearing gray riding breeches, a red, sleeveless doublet over a matching linen shirt, knee-high, ebony riding boots with wickedly sharp rowels, and he carried a horsewhip.

They were enormous, and their rowels extended a good twelve inches from Merton's heels after he had donned them.