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Arbor

//ˈɑːbə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.

    "Our tacit treaty with Miss Maudie was that we could play on her lawn, eat her scuppernongs if we didn’t jump on the arbor, and explore her vast back lot,"

  2. 2
    An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
  3. 3
    a framework that supports climbing plants wordnet
  4. 4
    A grove of trees.
  5. 5
    A bar for supporting cutting tools.
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  1. 6
    any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts wordnet
  2. 7
    A spindle of a wheel.
  3. 8
    tree (as opposed to shrub) wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English arbour, erbour, from Old French erbier (“field, meadow, kitchen garden”), from erbe (“grass, herb”), from Latin herba (“grass, herb”) (English herb). (Compare Late Latin herbārium, although erbier is possibly an independent formation.) The spelling was influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French arbre (“tree, axis”), spelling influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).

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