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Definition of Cowlings
1. cowling [n] - See also: cowling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cowlings
Literary usage of Cowlings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"Hence cowlings (with excrescent g) for Collins, Cowles or Coules for Coles (Nicholas).
This practice may be described as a provincialism, but it has left a ..."
2. Green Light!: Men of the 81st Troop Carrier Squadron Tell Their Story by Martin Wolfe (1989)
"Days when we had to pull inspections would start with us pushing the inspection
stands up to the plane and yanking off the engine cowlings and the ..."
3. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1878)
"reign bank- Of nations, and the opinions of civilians, furnish no satisfactory
cowlings. solution. Even as between co-ordinate States, belonging to the same ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1844)
"At Worthing, Anne, relict of John Kemp, esq. late of Branches-park, cowlings,
Suffolk, and of Edgeworth-pI. Honey, Sussex. Dec. 9. At Hastings, aged 89, ..."
5. General Kenney Reports: A Personal History of the Pacific War by George C. Kenney (1997)
"There was no aluminum-sheet stock for repair of shot-up or damaged airplanes, so
they beat flat the engine cowlings of wrecked fighter planes to make ribs ..."
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