hood

1. A covering for the head, usually attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.

2. A covering for the head, usually attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.Synonyms: blinder

3. Particular parts of conveyancesUK

4. Particular parts of conveyancesSynonyms: cowl, bonnetCanadaUS

5. Particular parts of conveyancesExamples: "Like many captains, I was just as glad to leave engineering to the engineers. Looking under the ship's hood wasn't what interested me."; "I never see the pilot percolating coffee or the attendant with a screwdriver under the airplane's hood. Why? Because we all have something we are good at, and we are expected to do that one thing well."broadlyespecially

6. Particular parts of conveyancesExamples: "Care must also be taken to place the tenons on the main post so that a stop-water can be driven between it and the fore tenon and the rabbet of the hoods at the keel. The post being dressed to its proper dimensions, the tenons cut, and their ..."; "The fore hoods end at a rabbet cut in the wood stem (see Plate CXVIII.), and the after hoods end at a rabbet prepared in the yellow metal body post. The fore hoods are fastened to the bottom plating as elsewhere; but in the stem they have ..."; "But for deep and narrow vessels you must line your hooden-ends wider to get up faster, and consequently the lower ends of the after-hoods will come round, […]"