Cowl
[kaʊl]
Definition
(noun.) a loose hood or hooded robe (as worn by a monk).
(verb.) cover with or as with a cowl; 'cowl the boys and veil the girls'.
Editor: Oswald--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A monk's hood; -- usually attached to the gown. The name was also applied to the hood and garment together.
(n.) A cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilating shaft, etc.
(n.) A wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive.
(n.) A vessel carried on a pole between two persons, for conveyance of water.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Monk's hood.[2]. Chimney-top.
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Definition
n. a cap or hood: a monk's hood: the badge of monkhood: a monk: a cover for a chimney.—v.t. to make a monk of: to cover like a cowl.—adj. Cowled wearing a cowl.
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Examples
- I would not for my cowl that they found us in this goodly exercise. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Men say that the keeper has complained to his official, and that he will be stripped of his cowl and cope altogether, if he keeps not better order. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I dare be sworn he did so, said the knight; I was convinced that there was better food in the cell, Holy Clerk, since you first doffed your cowl. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I speak of the Dominican friars--men who wear a coarse, heavy brown robe and a cowl, in this hot climate, and go barefoot. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The promise I had made to the d?mon weighed upon my mind, like Dante's iron cowl on the heads of the hellish hypocrites. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It is that of your trusty slave and jester, answered Wamba, throwing back his cowl. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The robed and close-cowled harlequins entered. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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