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noun

Cowl n.

A monk's hood; usually attached to the gown. The name was also applied to the hood and garment together. "What differ more, you cry, than crown and cowl?"

A cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilating shaft, etc.

A wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive.

(aviation) A removable metal covering for an aircraft engine, providing streamlining to minimize wind resistance; also called cowling.

A covering for a chimney or other ventilating shaft functioning to increase the draft.

Cowl n. A vessel carried on a pole between two persons, for conveyance of water.

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Etymology of 'Cowl'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cowl" Quotes from Famous Books

... up and drew his cowl upon his crown, And started off in haste to tell the news to Robber Brown; To tell him how his daughter, who now was for marriage fit, Had winked upon a sorter, who ...

— Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs • W. S. Gilbert

... unconsciously as consciously—by the thing which since its owner's death had grown every hour more mysterious and more formidable—the safe. It was a fine afternoon. The secondary but still grandiose enigma of the affair, Mr. Cowl, could be heard walking methodically on the gravel in the garden. Mr. Cowl was the secretary of the ...

— The Lion's Share • E. Arnold Bennett

... Rebecca, it is too dreadful to talk of. I have seen that poor monk who was killed in the cellars. It was not fancy. I saw him as plainly as I see you now, with his tall thin figure, and long loose gown, and the brown cowl drawn over ...

— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle

... difference made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade; The cobbler aproned, and the parson gowned, The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned, "What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl?" I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella. ...

— Essay on Man - Moral Essays and Satires • Alexander Pope

... Middle Ages man had lived enveloped in a cowl. He had not seen the beauty of the world, or had seen it only to cross himself, and turn aside and tell his beads and pray. Like St. Bernard travelling along the shores of Lake Leman, and noticing neither the azure of the waters nor ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various

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