BOWER

arbor, arbour, bower, pergola

(noun) a framework that supports climbing plants; “the arbor provided a shady resting place in the park”

embower, bower

(verb) enclose in a bower

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Bower

A surname.

Anagrams

• bowre

Etymology 1

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.

(literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.

A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.

(ornithology) A large structure made of grass and bright objects, used by the bower bird during courtship displays.

Synonyms

• boudoir

Verb

bower (third-person singular simple present bowers, present participle bowering, simple past and past participle bowered)

To embower; to enclose.

(obsolete) To lodge.

Etymology 2

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

A peasant; a farmer.

Etymology 3

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.

Etymology 4

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

(nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.

Etymology 5

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

One who bows or bends.

A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.

Etymology 6

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.

Etymology 7

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

(obsolete, falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.

Anagrams

• bowre

Source: Wiktionary

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Bo"wer, n. Etym: [From Bow, v. & n.]

1. One who bows or bends.

2. (Naut.)

Definition: An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.

3. A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. [Obs.] His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. Spenser. Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor.

Bow"er, n. Etym: [G. bauer a peasant. So called from the figure sometimes used for the knave in cards. See Boor.]

Definition: One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre. Right bower, the knave of the trump suit, the highest card (except the "Joker") in the game.

– Left bower, the knave of the other suit of the same color as the trump, being the next to the right bower in value.

– Best bower or Joker, in some forms of euchre and some other games, an extra card sometimes added to the pack, which takes precedence of all others as the highest card.

Bow"er, n. Etym: [OE. bour, bur, room, dwelling, AS. bur, fr. the root of AS. buan to dwell; akin to Icel. bur chamber, storehouse, Sw. bur cage, Dan. buur, OHG. pur room, G. bauer cage, bauer a peasant. *97] Cf.Boor, Byre.]

1. Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment. Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower. Gascoigne.

2. A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat. Shenstone. B. Johnson.

3. A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.

Bow"er, v. t.

Definition: To embower; to inclose. Shak.

Bow"er, v. i.

Definition: To lodge. [Obs.] Spenser.

Bow"er, n. Etym: [From Bough, cf. Brancher.] (Falconry)

Definition: A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. [Obs.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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