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vower
English
Etymology
vow +? -er
Noun
vower (plural vowers)
- One who makes a vow.
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Anagrams
- revow
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Etymology
From Middle English four, from Old English f?ower, from Proto-West Germanic *feuwar. Cognates include English four and Scots fower.
Numeral
vower
- four
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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bower
English
Pronunciation
- Etymologies 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7:
- (UK) IPA(key): /ba?.??/, /ba???/
- Rhymes: -a?.?(?), -a??(?)
- Etymologies 5 and 6:
- (UK) IPA(key): /b??.??/, /b????/
- Rhymes: -???(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English bour, from Old English b?r, from Proto-Germanic *b?raz (“room, abode”). Cognate with German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr (Danish bur, Norwegian Bokmål bur, Swedish bur (“cage”).
Noun
bower (plural bowers)
- A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
- c. 1572, George Gascoigne, A Lady being both wronged by false suspect, and also wounded by the durance of hir husband, doth thus bewray hir grief.
- Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower.
- c. 1572, George Gascoigne, A Lady being both wronged by false suspect, and also wounded by the durance of hir husband, doth thus bewray hir grief.
- (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
- 1748, William Shenstone, to William Lyttleton Esq.
- While friends arrived in circles gay,
To visit Damon's bower
- While friends arrived in circles gay,
- 1748, William Shenstone, to William Lyttleton Esq.
- A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1
- […] 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; […]
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1
- (ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
Synonyms
- boudoir
Translations
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
From Middle English boueer, from Old English b?r, ?eb?r (“freeholder of the lowest class, peasant, farmer”) and Middle Dutch bouwer (“farmer, builder, peasant”); both from Proto-Germanic *b?raz (“dweller”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??w- (“to dwell”). Cognate with German Bauer (“peasant, builder”), Dutch boer, buur, and Albanian burrë (“man, husband”). See boor, neighbor.
Noun
bower (plural bowers)
- A peasant; a farmer.
Etymology 3
From German Bauer.
Noun
bower (plural bowers)
- Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
- 1870, Bret Harte, Plain Language from Truthful James
- 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.
- 1870, Bret Harte, Plain Language from Truthful James
Derived terms
- best bower
- left bower
- right bower
Etymology 4
From the bow of a ship +? -er.
Noun
bower (plural bowers)
- (nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
Derived terms
- best bower
- small bower
Etymology 5
From bow (verb) +? -er.
Noun
bower (plural bowers)
- One who bows or bends.
- A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
Etymology 6
From bow (noun) +? -er.
Noun
bower (plural bowers)
- One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
Derived terms
- diddley bower
Etymology 7
From bough, compare brancher.
Noun
bower (plural bowers)
- (obsolete, falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
See also
- Bower Ashton
References
bower in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- bowre
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