meaning of bower
1. One who bows or bends.
2. An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
3. A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
4. One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
5. Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp. , a ladys private apartment.
6. A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.
7. A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc. , twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.
8. To embower; to inclose.
9. To lodge.
10. A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
11. An Australian bird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus / holosericeus), allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers or playhouses of twigs and decorates them with bright-colored objects; the satin bird.
12. a framework that supports climbing plants; "the arbor provided a shady resting place in the
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