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The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points. With sounding whip, and rowels dyed in blood. Cowper.

See rewel bone. [Obs.]

A tool used for smoothing a mold. Trowel bayonet. See Spade bayonet, under Spade. -- Fish trowel. See Fish slice, under Fish.

Formed with a trowel; smoothed with a trowel; as, troweled stucco, that is, stucco laid on and ready for the reception of paint. [Written also trowelled.]

As much as a trowel will hold; enough to fill a trowel.

The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.

In plastering, a particularly good troweled surface. Knight.

e. Spade bayonet, a bayonet with a broad blade which may be used digging; -- called also trowel bayonet. -- Spade handle (Mach.), the forked end of a connecting rod in which a pin is held at both ends. See Illust. of Knuckle joint, under Knuckle.

el, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood. And on her feet a pair of spurs large. Chaucer.

coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings. [Written also spur-rial, and spur-ryal.]

us Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur.

The act of laying on coats of plaster with a trowel.