Posted on 10/05/2006 4:49:16 AM PDT by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
rowel • \ROW-ul ("OW" as in "cow")\ • verb
1 : to goad with or as if with the pointed disk at the end of a spur
2 : vex, trouble Marked by lighthearted unconcern or indifference; carefree; nonchalant.
Example sentence:
With one of the best fastballs in the league combined with a wicked changeup, Lester roweled the opposing line-up for his second career no-hitter.
Etymology: If you've seen Western movies, you've seen rowels. The noun "rowel" names the circular, point-covered disk on the end of a spur that is used to urge powerful steeds to maximum speeds. But cowboys didn't invent rowels; knights in shining armor were sporting them even before the 12th century. English speakers of yore picked up the noun "rowel" from the Anglo-French "roele," meaning "small wheel" ("roele" is also an ancestor of the word "roulette"). By the end of the 1500s, "rowel" was also being used as a verb for any process of prodding or goading that was as irritating as being poked in the side with a rowel.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
oooohhhhhhh, so cute. Which one are YOU moochy?
no, that WAS from beedogs! it looks like my loosh, but doesn't have the lucky brown spot on his head between the ears!
Sorry; I don't have anything on that website. (Found out about it from a magazine I read, SMART COMPUTING.)
Sorry, my bad. Didn't realize you had taken that from the website. (Couldn't get over the tons of pictures.)
I recently got Rachel Ray's magazine.....which features her and her dog....she seems to have a penchant for checking out people's refrigerators and whether or not they feed people food to their dogs......I bet you would like her. ;^)
I should add that I would never have a bee costume, simply because I am TERRIFIED of bees.
Old childhood phobia -- never got over it, sorry to say. Snakes, other bugs don't bother me at all. But bees -- euww!
To this day, I'm afraid to eat outdoors. People tease me about it. With the holiday of Succoth coming up (Jews eat in booths), I'm in big trouble. Yellow jacket season.
(Actually, some of those beedog costumes look more like yellow jackets.)
I hear the Delaware congressman has taken ill. Thanks to you, I find the timing of it suspicious.
OH, gosh, the newsblast that the former page played a prank on Foley and the dems got ahold of it.....OMG....talk about backfire.....
I wouldn't get to excited. That's just a dude denying he plays for the other team.
Now the part about Dem operatives, that's the good news.
oh i was going to ask when succoth was coming up! i knew it was around now, and yes yellow jackets are horrid at this time of year!
Omigosh, Toby is there too, fretting about sock monkeys. How does someone explain that to their boss, when they're caught doing something like that online? A news forum, sure, it's current events but a sock monkey or bee dog site? Good luck explaining that to the LAN manager.
so we have found out about your sock monkey fetish, tobe....
and let me congratulate on the the ROCKtober, since i know no one else will have noticed : )
This time last year, I remember some helpful students trying to correct it for me. ;) Thanks to FM radio, we will always have 2-fer Tuesdays and Roc-tober!! Rock on!
LOL!!!!!
He has had a couple of small strokes about 2 weeks ago.
He'll still win re-election in a landslide.
You mean he won't throw the election just to cover his arse?
Poor choice of words on my part.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!
Excellent choice of words................I think the smallest percentag of votes he ever received was something like 63% He usually wins with 70% or better.
Darnit,
I'd just kind of like to get all the gay sex scandals out of the way at once.
That way, in the future, we can get back to good old fashioned heterosexual sex scandals, hopefully with smokin hot babes. That's the way nature intended it :)
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