Definitions for cowls

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cowls cowl

Spelling: [koul]

IPA: /kaʊl/

Cowls is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in cowls (closw).

Definitions for cowls

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.
8. Jane, 1884–1950, U.S. actress and playwright.

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 cowls

before 1000; Middle English cou(e)le, Old English cugele, cūle Late Latin cuculla monk's hood, variant of Latin cucullus hood

Examples for cowls

Meanwhile, remember our proverb that says, 'It's not the cowl makes the monk.'

Frey Bartolomeo shot a fierce glance at him from under his cowl.

If you are still troubled, some other cowl must be causing it now.

As it chances, we have with us one or two who once wore the cowl.

Whereupon I turned to the spying friar and said; 'Hand me your robe and cowl.'

Throughout Mexico, the cowl of the monk is the best passport a man could be provided with.

But he did not care for the low debaucheries, where the frock and cowl were at home.

I had divested myself of my monk's habit, and cut away the cowl from Madonna's.

Better don a cowl at once, Ser Cioni: everybody will believe in your fasting.

I recognized, under the cowl, the thin, sallow face and the sombre eyes.