different between elbower vs embower

English

Etymology

elbow +? -er

Noun

elbower (plural elbowers)

1. Agent noun of elbow; one who elbows.

English

Alternative forms

• imbower

Etymology

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Ultimately from Old English b?r, from Proto-Germanic *b?raz. Cognate with German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr, (whence Danish bur, Swedish bur (“cage”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?ba??/

Verb

embower (third-person singular simple present embowers, present participle embowering, simple past and past participle embowered)

1. (transitive, poetic) To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
   • 1809, Washington Irving, A History of New York …, by Dietrich Knickerbocker

     A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms.

   • 1852, Alfred Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott

     And the silent isle imbowers / The Lady of Shalott

   • 1884, Donald Grant Mitchell, Bound Together

     The embowered lanes, and the primroses and the hawthorn
2. (intransitive) To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.
   • 1591, Edmund Spenser, Virgil’s Gnat, line 225

     But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;

3. (intransitive) To form a bower.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book I, lines 302-305:

     Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks

     In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades

     High overarched embower; or scattered sedge

     Afloat

Translations

References

• embower in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “embower”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume II (D–Hoon), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371.