hood
/hʊd/ sustantivo B2En español: birrete, capota, capó, capirote
- A head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.
- A head and neck covering placed on horses to protect against insects and sunlight, to slow coat growth and for warmth.
- A distinctively colored fold of material, representing a university degree.
- An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
- The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.
- A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.
- A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
- One of the endmost planks (or, one of the ends of the planks) in a ship’s bottom at bow or stern, that fits into the rabbet. (These, when fit into the rabbet, resemble a hood (covering).)
Plural hoods
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Down hoods all!” said half a dozen low voices (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras).
Then inch by inch out of the grass rose up the head and spread hood of Nag, the big black cobra, and he was five feet long from tongue to tail.
The great God Brahm put his mark upon all our people, when the first cobra spread his hood to keep the sun off Brahm as he slept.
He spread out his hood more than ever, and Rikki-tikki saw the spectacle-mark on the back of it that looks exactly like the eye part of a hook-and-eye fastening.
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