A worker in unmortared stone; a stonemason who has not served an apprenticeship.
"The old cowan drifted into the harbor just as the storm broke."
A fishing-boat.
A Scottish surname, from Scottish Gaelic; an anglicization of mac Eoghainn (“son of Ewen”)
"The local historian explained that Cowan was a common Scottish surname derived from the Gaelic phrase for son of Ewen."