Driving in the heavy Mexican spurs, with their rowels two or three inches across, the rider starts wildly out, and mile after mile the open country is crossed at a hard-gallop.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash
The spurs will be of good steel, of the cowboy pattern, with blunt rowels.
"Camp and Trail"
Stewart Edward White
The hope died out on the instant, for she heard his steps, with the soft clink, clink of the rowels of his spurs; but he kept his distance till they were well beyond the cottages, and then rapidly closed up.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn