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Bower
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- 1 A surname.
"Snowdon climbed to the top floor of the house opposite George's in Pimlico to observe the artist in one window and his model, the painter Natalie Bower, in the adjacent."
- 1 A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
"Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower."
- 2 A peasant; a farmer.
- 3 Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted).
"Yet the cards they were stocked / In a way that I grieve, / And my feelings were shocked / At the state of Nye's sleeve, / Which was stuffed full of aces and bowers, / And the same with intent to deceive."
- 4 A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
- 5 One who bows or bends.
"The bower aims his display straight at the dominant figure, who may reciprocate with a milder version of the same action."
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- 6 One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
- 7 A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
- 8 a framework that supports climbing plants wordnet
- 9 A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat. literary
"While friends arrived in circles gay, To visit Damon's bower"
- 10 A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
"His rawbone armes, whose mighty brawned bowrs / Were wont to riue steele plates, and helmets hew"
- 11 A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
"[…]say that thou overheard'st us, And bid her steal into the pleached bower, Where honey-suckles, ripen'd by the sun, Forbid the sun to enter;[…]"
- 12 A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
- 1 To embower; to enclose.
"O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell / When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend / In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh?"
- 2 enclose in a bower wordnet
- 3 To lodge. obsolete
"Flora now calleth forth each flower, And bids make readie Maias bower"
Etymology
From Middle English bour, from Old English būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą (“room, abode”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Búur (“storage room, utility room; cage”), German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr (“cage”) (Danish bur, Norwegian Bokmål bur, Swedish bur).
From Middle English bour, from Old English būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą (“room, abode”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Búur (“storage room, utility room; cage”), German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr (“cage”) (Danish bur, Norwegian Bokmål bur, Swedish bur).
From Middle English boueer, from Old English būr, ġebūr (“freeholder of the lowest class, peasant, farmer”) and Middle Dutch bouwer (“farmer, builder, peasant”); both from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“dweller”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to dwell”). Cognate with German Bauer (“peasant, farmer”), Dutch boer, buur, and Albanian burrë (“man, husband”). Doublet of bauer, Boer, and boor. More at neighbour.
From German Bauer. A doublet of etymology 2 and of the German-origin surname Bauer.
From the bow of a ship + -er.
From bow (verb) + -er.
From bow (noun) + -er.
From bough + -er, compare brancher.
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