Definitions for cowled

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Spelling: [kould]

IPA: /kaʊld/

Cowled is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in cowled (cdelow).

Definitions for cowled

noun

1. a hooded garment worn by monks.
2. the hood of this garment.
3. part of a garment that is draped to resemble a cowl or hood.
4. the forward part of the body of a motor vehicle supporting the rear of the hood and the windshield and housing the pedals and instrument panel.
5. a cowling.
6. a hoodlike covering for increasing the draft of a chimney or ventilator.
7. a wire netting fastened to the top of the smokestack of a locomotive to prevent large sparks from being discharged; a spark arrester.

adjective

1. wearing a cowl.
2. shaped like a cowl; cucullate.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with or as if with a cowl.
2. to put a monk's cowl on.
3. to make a monk of.

Origin of cowled

First recorded in 1555-65; cowl + -ed³

Examples for cowled

The sky is cowled with cloud, save where a sullen sunset shoots blood-red rays across the plain.

She threw far from her a cowled cloak that she had on, and said to Agnes: "Leave us."

cowled architects of the XIX century rebuilt their monastery.

Close to the walls they go, their hands meekly folded, their cowled heads bent to the ground, and yet their eyes note everything.

Gaskell, in the shadows of the cowled fireplace jumped in sheer alarm.

But the shadow of the cowled and cloaked figure stood statue-like and never moved.

In the beam of this he sat, cowled in white, but his face was shadowed.

"What you have seen—you have seen," the cowled form replied enigmatically.

That cowled Sarah Burton column in ivory crepe was a Twitter sensation.

Close beside me were two cowled monks, and I believe that it was one of them who spoke.