The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rowel \Row"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Roweledor Rowelled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Roweling or Rowelling.] (Far.)
To insert a rowel, or roll of hair or silk, into (as the
flesh of a horse).
--Mortimer.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: rowel)
WordNet
See rowel
Usage examples of "rowelled".
His horse, like Sharpe's, had been slowed by the plough furrows in the rye field, but the Frenchman rowelled it on as he got close to Sharpe.
Lord John savagely rowelled the beast, and somehow it lumbered and scraped its way over the thorns.
He rowelled his spurs back and Sharpe was forgotten in the sudden panic.
One of the red-tipped wait-a-bit thorns had rowelled her, raising a long red scratch across the smooth buttery skin of her inner thigh.
Pailleterie shouted, and rowelled back his spurs to drive his big black horse straight for the bridge that was now less than a quarter mile away.