Cowl vs Cowlless - What's the difference?
cowl | cowlless |
A monk's hood or hooded robe
* Alexander Pope
A mask that covers the majority of the head.
A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling
A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow.
(nautical) A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below
(nautical) A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge
(obsolete, British) A soe
Without a cowl.
* 1982 , Michael Bishop, No enemy but time
As a noun cowl
is a monk's hood or hooded robe.As an adjective cowlless is
without a cowl.cowl
English
(wikipedia cowl)Noun
(en noun)- What differ more, you cry, than crown and cowl ?
See also
* (l) (cowl-shaped)Anagrams
*cowlless
English
Adjective
(-)- In clusters on the plain, like cowlless monks at matins, sat the vultures that had settled on the corpse of the hyena impaled by the female rhino...