uncowls

Verb

uncowl (third-person singular simple present uncowls, present participle uncowling, simple past and past participle uncowled)

1. (transitive) To divest or deprive of a cowl (monk's hood or hooded robe).
   • See’st thou an Isle, by Palmers, Pilgrims trod,
     Men bearded, bald, cowl’d, uncowl’d, shod, unshod,1728, [Alexander Pope], “Book the Third”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC, page 41
2. (archaic, figuratively, transitive) To uncover; to unveil.
   • I pray you, think us friends—uncowl your face,
     For you seem faint, and the night-breeze blows healing.1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Osorio, London: John Pearson, 1873, Act I, p. 24
3. To remove or pull back one's cowl.
   • “Monseigneur, it is not often your capuchin uncowls; least of all when he wishes to remain unknown! […]”1859, Louis Alexis Chamerovzow, chapter 1, in The Chronicles of the Bastile, New York: Stanford & Delisser, page 26
4. (transitive) To remove the cowl (protective covering) from (an engine).
   • […] uncowling the airplane before each flight is neither practical nor expected. In fact, uncowling such an airplane repeatedly may wear the latching or fastening devices.1980, George C. Larson, chapter 3, in Fly on Instruments, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 29