Definition of "rowelling" [rowelling]

• Present participle of rowel. (verb)

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• "There is no such mortal enemy of genius as poverty except riches: a touch of the spur from time to time does good; but a constant rowelling disables."
• "My cousins were mere cubs, in whose company I might, if I liked it, unlearn whatever decent manners, or elegant accomplishments, I had acquired, but where I could attain no information beyond what regarded worming dogs, rowelling horses, and following foxes."
• "There must have been at least twenty cavalrymen rowelling their horses down the cart track."