cowl

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: koul, IPA(key): /kaʊl/ (Mid-Ulster) IPA(key): /kəʉl/ Homophone: cawl Rhymes: -aʊl, -aʊəl === Etymology 1 === From Middle English coule, from Old English cūle, from earlier cugele (“hood, cowl”), from Ecclesiastical Latin cuculla (“monk's cowl”), from Latin cucullus (“hood”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of cagoule. ==== Noun ==== cowl (plural cowls) A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it. c. 1536, William Tyndale, An Exposycyon vpon the v. vi. vii. Chapters of Mathewe, An Exposycyon of the syxte Capiter,[1] And therfore al our monkes whose professyon was neuer to eate fleshe, set vp the Pope and toke dispensacyons bothe for that faste and also for theyr strayte rules, and made theyr strayte rules as wyde as the hodes of theyr cowles. 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. (metonymic) A monk. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ===== See also ===== cucullated (having a hood-like covering or component) cuculliform (cowl-shaped) ==== Verb ==== cowl (third-person singular simple present cowls, present participle cowling, simple past and past participle cowled) To cover with, or as if with, a cowl (hood). To wrap or form (something made of fabric) like a cowl. (transitive) To make a monk of (a person). (Yorkshire) To scrape together === Etymology 2 === From Middle English coul, covel, from Old French cuvel (“vat”), diminutive of cuve, from Latin cūpa (“tub, cask, tun, vat”). ==== Noun ==== cowl (plural cowls) (obsolete, UK) A vessel carried on a pole, a soe. ===== Derived terms ===== cowlstaff === Etymology 3 === See caul, probably altered due to semantic association (“something covering the head”). ==== Noun ==== cowl (plural cowls) A caul (the amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth). 1982, André Brink, A Chain of Voices, New York: William Morrow, Part 3, “Campher,” p. 331,[10] […] I’d been born with a cowl, which from my earliest age prompted a wide variety of predictions about my future, alternately dire and enthusiastic. === Etymology 4 === Borrowed from Ulster Scots coul, from Middle English cold. ==== Adjective ==== cowl (comparative more cowl, superlative most cowl) (Mid-Ulster) cold === Anagrams === Clow, low C == Yola == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kəʊl/ === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Irish cabhail. ==== Noun ==== cowl The guts of fish. === Etymology 2 === From Middle English cowle. ==== Noun ==== cowl A basket for carrying fish. === References === Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990), “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, in lrish University Review‎[11], volume 20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page 156