The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points.

A little flat ring or wheel on horses' bits.

( See SPUR ).

A small wheel with points, attached to the shank of a spur.

a small spiked wheel at the end of a spur

a sharp-toothed wheel inserted into the end of a spur

a spiked disk on a spur, used to urge on the horse to victory

revolving disk with sharp points at end of spur.

a revolving disk with sharp pointed edges at the end of a spur.

The circular, notched, bluntly pointed, and freewheeling part of a spur. Any competitor using spurs that will cause a cut is disqualified.

A rowel is a small revolving wheel or disk with radiating points forming the termination of a rider's spur. The earliest rowels probably did not revolve but were fixed. They appear on monuments of the 13th century, as in the great seal of Henry III of England, but the older prick spurs remained the standard form until the 14th century.