Bower
Bower ({not transcribed}) , noun
[From Bow, v. & n.]
1.
One who bows or bends.
2.
(Nautical) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
3.
A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. [Obsolete]
His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers
Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew.
Collocations (1)
Best bower or Small bower , See the Note under Anchor.
Bower (bou"ẽr) , noun
[German bauer a peasant. So called from the figure sometimes used for the knave in cards. See Boor.]
One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
Collocations (3)
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.
Bower , noun
[Old English bour, bur, room, dwelling, Anglo-Saxon būr, from the root of Anglo-Saxon būan to dwell; akin to Icelandic būr chamber, storehouse, Swedish būr cage, Danish buur, Old High German pūr room, German bauer cage, bauer a peasant. r97] Compare 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.
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.
Bower , transitive verb
To embower; to inclose. — Shakespeare
Bower , intransitive verb
To lodge. [Obsolete] — Spenser
Bower , noun
[From Bough, compare Brancher.]
(Falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. [Obsolete]