cowl

1. 1.

   cover with or as with a cowl

   “cowl the boys and veil the girls”

   Broadercover

Other forms of cowl

plural

cowls·

past tense

cowled·

present participle

cowling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cowl

What does cowl mean?

cowl means "protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cowl?

cowl has 1 syllable: cowl. In IPA it is /ˈkaʊl/.

What is another word for cowl?

Close synonyms include hood, bonnet, cowling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cowl a common word?

cowl is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.