Usually means: Hood or draped neckline garment.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word cowl:

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  1. Cowl, cowl: Merriam-Webster
  2. cowl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cowl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cowl: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cowl: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cowl, cowl: Wordnik
  7. cowl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cowl: Wiktionary
  9. cowl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cowl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cowl: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cowl, cowl: Dictionary.com
  13. cowl: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Cowl (chimney), Cowl (disambiguation), Cowl (novel), Cowl (oast), Cowl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cowl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cowl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cowl: Rhymezone
  18. Cowl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cowl: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. cowl: FreeDictionary.org
  21. cowl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. cowl: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. cowl: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. cowl: Encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. COWL: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cowl: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. C.O.W.L, cowl: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See cowled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.
noun:  A mask that covers the majority of the head.
noun:  A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling.
noun:  A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow.
noun:  (nautical) A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below.
noun:  (nautical) A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge.
noun:  (metonymically) A monk.
verb:  To cover with, or as if with, a cowl (hood).
verb:  To wrap or form (something made of fabric) like a cowl.
verb:  (transitive) To make a monk of (a person).
verb:  (Yorkshire) To scrape together
noun:  (obsolete, British) A vessel carried on a pole, a soe.
noun:  A caul (the amnion which encloses the foetus before birth, especially that part of it which sometimes shrouds a baby’s head at birth).
adjective:  (Mid-Ulster) cold

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