Definitions for Bower

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Bower bow·er

Spelling: [bou-er]

IPA: /ˈbaʊ ər/

Bower is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in Bower (beorw).

Definitions for Bower

noun

1. a leafy shelter or recess; arbor.
2. a rustic dwelling; cottage.
3. a lady's boudoir in a medieval castle.
4. an anchor carried at a ship's bow.
5. a person or thing that bows or bends.
6. a musician, as a violinist, who performs with a bow on a stringed instrument.
7. a flexible strip of wood or other material, bent by a string stretched between its ends, for shooting arrows:
8. an instrument resembling this, used for various purposes, as rotating a drill or spindle, or loosening entangled or matted fibers.
9. a bend or curve.
10. Also called bowknot. a looped knot composed of two or more loops and two ends, as for tying together the ends of a ribbon or string.
11. any separate piece of looped, knotted, or shaped gathering of ribbon, cloth, paper, etc., used as a decoration, as on a package, dress, or the like.
12. a long rod, originally curved but now nearly straight, with horsehairs stretched from one end to the other, used for playing on a musical instrument of the violin and viol families.
13. a single movement of such a device over the strings of a violin, viol, or the like.
14. bow tie.
15. something curved or arc-shaped.
16. a saddlebow.
17. an archer; bowman:
18. temple2 (def 3).
19. a U -shaped piece for placing under an animal's neck to hold a yoke.
20. Building Trades. a flexible rod used for laying out large curves.
21. the part of a key grasped by the fingers.
22. the loop on the stem of a watch by which the watch is attached to a chain or the like.
23. a rainbow.
24. Nautical, Aeronautics. the forward end of a vessel or airship. either side of this forward end, especially with reference to the direction of a distant object:
25. bows, Nautical. the exterior of the forward end of a vessel, especially one in which the hull slopes back on both sides of the stem.
26. the foremost oar in rowing a boat.
27. Also called bowman, bow oar. the person who pulls that oar.

Idioms

1. bows on, (of a ship) with the bow foremost:
2. bows under, (of a ship) shipping water at the bow:
3. on the bow, Nautical. within 45° to the heading of the vessel.

adjective

1. curved outward at the center; bent:
2. of or relating to the bow of a ship.

verb (used with object)

1. to enclose in or as in a bower; embower.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to bend into the form of a bow; curve.
2. Music. to perform by means of a bow upon a stringed instrument.
3. Textiles Obsolete. to loosen by passing a vibrating bow among entangled fibers.

Origin of Bower

before 900; Middle English bour, Old English būr chamber; cognate with Old Norse būr pantry, German Bauer birdcage; akin to neighbor

Examples for Bower

Even as he spoke the music in the bower ceased and voices were heard in question.

The next day the House was transformed by the women into a bower of blossoms.

If not at Christmas then at Easter; and whenever it was she should find her room a bower.

We crept to the back of the bower, and Lib leaned over and looked in.

Its inverted wheels on their trucks had made a bower of steel about the bridegroom.

bower seems not to understand that all flight-testing is incremental.

After authorities told bower her son had been sexually abused by older boys, bower resumed custody.

Rosamond eagerly seconded this proposal, and whispered, "Caroline's bower."

To his bower was Beowulf brought in haste, dauntless victor.

He frowned impatiently—they were sitting in that bower of hers above the river.