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- noun Plural form of
cowling .
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Examples
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He found that his small size gave him an advantage in reaching inside the nosecones, letting his crew avoid the delay of having another team come out to remove those cowlings and thus to cut the planes 'time out of service.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Everyone who knows anything about science fiction knows robots would never be sexually interested in other robots, regardless of the shapeliness of their chest cowlings.
MIND MELD: What Are The Coolest Robots in Science Fiction? 2010
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He found that his small size gave him an advantage in reaching inside the nosecones, letting his crew avoid the delay of having another team come out to remove those cowlings and thus to cut the planes 'time out of service.
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I count twenty engine cowlings and bridge/noses, so is that the entire first batch, or just one lot of several?
Firefly Ship Works Ltd. » Blog Archive » Serenity Takes Flight 2010
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There were four basic methods of propulsion: rotors, propellers, turbojets, and ducted fans, the last meaning propellers or multibladed fans spinning inside enclosed cowlings.
The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010
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There were four basic methods of propulsion: rotors, propellers, turbojets, and ducted fans, the last meaning propellers or multibladed fans spinning inside enclosed cowlings.
The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010
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There were four basic methods of propulsion: rotors, propellers, turbojets, and ducted fans, the last meaning propellers or multibladed fans spinning inside enclosed cowlings.
The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010
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I could hear rumbling in the distance and outside my window an irregular, multi-tonal chatter of rain on leaves and air-conditioner cowlings.
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I could hear rumbling in the distance and outside my window an irregular, multi-tonal chatter of rain on leaves and air-conditioner cowlings.
Potatoes Savoyarde 2006
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Some of the welders held clandestine poker games inside their intake cowlings, Bob Wisdom told me.
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