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Coiling vs Cowling - What's the difference?

coiling | cowling |

As a verb coiling

is .

As a noun coiling

is the pattern or motion of something that coils.

As a proper noun cowling is

.

coiling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The pattern or motion of something that coils.
  • * (Herman Melville), The Encantadas
    • Holding out her small olive hand before her captain, she said in mild and slowest Spanish, "Senor, I buried him;" then paused, struggled as against the writhed coilings of a snake, and cringing suddenly, leaped up, repeating in impassioned pain, "I buried him, my life, my soul!"

    cowling

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A young or little cow; calf.
  • *2003 , David Gilet, The Yellow Dot Plague and Other Tales :
    • She nuzzled between the legs—a bull calf. She continued to nuzzle and clean the little pea-green body that was blue with white patches about his cowling parts.

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (wikipedia cowling) (en noun)
  • A removable protective covering for the engine of an aircraft, motorcycle etc