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cowling|ˈkaʊlɪŋ|
[f. cowl n.1 + -ing1.]
The removable covering over or round the engine, etc., of an aeroplane or a motor vehicle.
1917Blackw. Mag. June 925/2 While attempting to fasten a small door in the cowling round the engine. 1927Daily Tel. 22 Jan. 9/3 Captain Campbell quickly had the car back on its course, but the cowling of his engine was badly dented. 1928C. F. S. Gamble North Sea Air Station ii. 55 A piece of tin in the inside of the engine cowling had come adrift. 1934Flight 8 Feb. 133/1 Apart from rotary engines, the only air-cooled engine of pre-war days which used cowling was the eight-cylinder Vee Renault. 1950Engineering 6 Jan. 1/1 On public service motor vehicles..care is taken with the fitting of engine cowlings. |