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All 4 letters words made out of cowl

cowl ocwl cwol wcol owcl wocl colw oclw clow lcow olcw locw cwlo wclo clwo lcwo wlco lwco owlc wolc olwc lowc wloc lwoc

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Definitions and meaning of cowl

cowl

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: koul, IPA^(key): /kaʊl/
• (Mid-Ulster English) IPA^(key): /kəʉl/
• Homophone: cawl
• Rhymes: -aʊl, -aʊəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English coule, from Old English cūle, from earlier cugele (“hood, cowl”), from Ecclesiastical Latin cuculla (“monk's cowl”), from Latin cucullus (“hood”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of cagoule.

Noun

cowl (plural cowls)

2. A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.
   • c. 1536, William Tyndale, An Exposycyon vpon the v. vi. vii. Chapters of Mathewe, An Exposycyon of the syxte Capiter,^[1]

     And therfore al our monkes whose professyon was neuer to eate fleshe, set vp the Pope and toke dispensacyons bothe for that faste and also for theyr strayte rules, and made theyr strayte rules as wyde as the hodes of theyr cowles.
3. A mask that covers the majority of the head.
4. A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling.
6. A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow.
7. (nautical) A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below.
8. (nautical) A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge.
9. (metonymically) A monk.

Derived terms

• cowl flap
• cowlless
• cowlneck
• cowl unit
• encowl
• friar's cowl
• Kilmarnock cowl
• the cowl does not make the monk
• uncowl

Translations

See also

• cucullated (having a hood-like covering or component)
• cuculliform (cowl-shaped)

Verb

cowl (third-person singular simple present cowls, present participle cowling, simple past and past participle cowled)

1. To cover with, or as if with, a cowl (hood).
2. To wrap or form (something made of fabric) like a cowl.
3. (transitive) To make a monk of (a person).
4. (Yorkshire) To scrape together

Etymology 2

From Middle English cuuel, from Old French cuvel (“vat”), diminutive of cuve, from Latin cūpa (“tub, cask, tun, vat”).

Noun

cowl (plural cowls)

1. (obsolete, British) A vessel carried on a pole, a soe.

Derived terms

• cowlstaff

Etymology 3

See caul, probably altered due to semantic association (“something covering the head”).

Noun

cowl (plural cowls)

1. A caul (the amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth).
   • 1982, André Brink, A Chain of Voices, New York: William Morrow, Part 3, “Campher,” p. 331,^[10]

     […] I’d been born with a cowl, which from my earliest age prompted a wide variety of predictions about my future, alternately dire and enthusiastic.

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Ulster Scots coul, from Middle English cold.

Adjective

cowl (comparative more cowl, superlative most cowl)

1. (Mid-Ulster) cold

Anagrams

• Clow, low C