Cowan

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  • n. A fishing-boat.
  • n. A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
  • n. A person who attempts to pass himself off as a Freemason without having experienced the rituals or going through the degrees.
  • n. A sneak; an inquisitive or prying person.
  • n. uninitiated, outside, “profane”
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who works as a mason without having served a regular apprenticeship.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One whose occupation is the building of dry stone walls: used especially of one who has not been regularly trained in the mason's trade.
  • n. Hence One who is not a Free-Mason.
  • Word Usage
    "As a boy, Bob had no way of knowing that “cow” might have been shorthand for “cowan,” an old Masonic term for “intruder.”"
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    cowen    gowan   
    Same Context
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