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encowling

encowling is the present participle and gerund of encowl.

Meaning of encowl

Verb

encowl (third-person singular simple present encowls, present participle encowling, simple past and past participle encowled)

  1. (transitive) To clothe (as) in a cowl; to make (someone) a monk.
    • King Alfred that his Christ he might more surely hold,
      Left his Northumbrian Crowne, and soone became encould,1622, Michael Drayton, The Second Part, or a Continuance of Poly-Olbion, London: John Marriott, et al, Song 24, p. 96

Questions about encowling

What is encowling the present participle and gerund of?
Encowling is the present participle and gerund of encowl.

Words near encowling in the dictionary

  1. encovered
  2. encovering
  3. encovers
  4. encowl
  5. encowled
  6. encowling
  7. encowls
  8. encradle
  9. encradled
  10. encradles
  11. encradling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: encowling (page history and authors); encowl (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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