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Cowl vs Snood - What's the difference?

cowl | snood |

As nouns the difference between cowl and snood

is that cowl is a monk's hood or hooded robe while snood is a band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place, including the hair-band formerly worn in Scotland and northern England by young unmarried women.

As a verb snood is

to keep the hair in place with a snood.

cowl

English

(wikipedia cowl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A monk's hood or hooded robe
  • * Alexander Pope
    • What differ more, you cry, than crown and cowl ?
  • 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

    • See also

    * (l) (cowl-shaped)

    Anagrams

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    snood

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place, including the hair-band formerly worn in Scotland and northern England by young unmarried women.
  • A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • And seldom was a snood amid / Such wild, luxuriant ringlets hid.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 264:
    • serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks
  • The flap of red skin on the beak of a male turkey.
  • * 2000 , Gary Clancy, Turkey Hunting Tactics , page 8
    • A fingerlike projection called a snood''''' hangs over the front of the beak. When the tom is alert, the ' snood constricts and projects vertically as a fleshy bump at the top rear of the beak.
  • A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.
  • A piece of clothing to keep the neck warm; neckwarmer.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "snood")

    Coordinate terms

    * (flap of skin on an animal) caruncle, comb, cockscomb, crest, wattle

    Hypernyms

    * (hairnet) hairnet

    Hyponyms

    * (hairnet) shpitzel

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To keep the hair in place with a snood.
  • * 1792 , (Robert Burns), "Tam Lin" (a Scottish popular ballad)
    • Janet has kilted her green kirtle
    A little aboon her knee,
    And she has snooded her yellow hair
    A little aboon her bree,