cowl
IPA: kˈaʊɫ
noun
- A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.
- A mask that covers the majority of the head.
- A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling.
- A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow.
- (nautical) A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below.
- (nautical) A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge.
- (metonymically) A monk.
- (obsolete, Britain) A vessel carried on a pole, a soe.
- A caul (the amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth).
verb
- To cover with, or as if with, a cowl (hood).
- To wrap or form (something made of fabric) like a cowl.
- (transitive) To make a monk of (a person).
- (Yorkshire) To scrape together
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Examples of "cowl" in Sentences
- The cowling wa smaller diameter.
- Removal of the cowl didn't effect this.
- It was enclosed in a long chord cowling.
- In your lap will be the executioner's cowl.
- There's a wireless relay communicator in the cowl.
- The cowling improves containment of the fume cupboard.
- The engine was cowled and the fuselage was streamlined.
- The attendees elected Cowles as president of the convention.
- Cowles was one of the founding members of the Ecological Society of America.
- Cowles Bog is a marsh rather than a bog because cattail is the dominant plant.