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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 783 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROWEL (from O. Fr. rouel or roel, dim. of roue, See also:Lat. See also:rota, See also:wheel)  , the name of the small revolving See also:wheel or disk with radiating points forming the termination of a rider's See also:spur . The earliest rowels probably did not revolve but were fixed . They appear on monuments of the 13th See also:century, as in the See also:great See also:seal of See also:Henry III. of See also:England, but the older " prick " spurs remained the See also:standard See also:form till the 14th century (see SPUR) . In veterinary See also:science, the word is used of a small disk of See also:leather or other material used as a See also:seton .

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