[kou-ling] 
| a streamlined metal housing or removable covering for an engine, esp. an aircraft engine, often part of or forming a continuous line with the fuselage or wing. |
[koul] | 1. | a hooded garment worn by monks. |
| 2. | the hood of this garment. |
| 3. | part of a garment that is draped to resemble a cowl or hood. |
| 4. | the forward part of the body of a motor vehicle supporting the rear of the hood and the windshield and housing the pedals and instrument panel. |
| 5. | a cowling. |
| 6. | a hoodlike covering for increasing the draft of a chimney or ventilator. |
| 7. | a wire netting fastened to the top of the smokestack of a locomotive to prevent large sparks from being discharged; a spark arrester. |
| 8. | to cover with or as if with a cowl. |
| 9. | to put a monk's cowl on. |
| 10. | to make a monk of. |
| cowl (koul) n.
To cover with or as if with a cowl. [Middle English coule, from Old English cugele, from Late Latin cuculla, from Latin cucullus, hood.] |
| cowl·ing (kou'lĭng) n. A removable metal covering for an engine, especially an aircraft engine. |
