Cowanis

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of cowan (“a worker in unmortared stone, an unapprenticed stonemason”) form-of, obsolete, plural

    "Item That na Maister or Fallow-of-Craft ressave ony cowanis to wirk in his societie or cumpanye nor send nane of his servands to wirk wt cowanis vnder the paine of twentie pundis so often as ony persone offendis heirintill."

Example

More examples

"Item That na Maister or Fallow-of-Craft ressave ony cowanis to wirk in his societie or cumpanye nor send nane of his servands to wirk wt cowanis vnder the paine of twentie pundis so often as ony persone offendis heirintill."

More for "cowanis"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.