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cowlings

cowlings is the plural of cowling.

Meaning of cowling

Noun (1)

cowling (plural cowlings)

  1. A young or little cow; calf.
    • She nuzzled between the legs—a bull calf. She continued to nuzzle and clean the little pea-green body that was blue with white patches about his cowling parts.2003, David Gilet, The Yellow Dot Plague and Other Tales
    Synonyms:
    cowlet

Noun (2)

cowling (plural cowlings)

  1. A removable protective covering for the engine of an aircraft, motorcycle, etc.

See all 5 meanings of cowling

Proper noun capitalized: Cowlings

Cowlings

  1. (plural) plural of Cowling

Questions about cowlings

What is cowlings the plural of?
Cowlings is the plural of cowling.
What part of speech is cowlings?
Cowlings is a proper noun.

Words near cowlings in the dictionary

  1. cowlift
  2. cowlifts
  3. cowlike
  4. Cowlin
  5. cowling
  6. cowlings
  7. Cowlishaw
  8. Cowlishaws
  9. Cowlitz
  10. Cowlitz County
  11. cowlless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cowlings (page history and authors); Cowlings (page history and authors); cowling (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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