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Arbor vs. Bower — What's the Difference?

Arbor vs. Bower — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Arbor and Bower

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Arbor

A shady resting place in a garden or park, often made of latticework on which plants such as climbing shrubs or vines are grown.

Bower

A shaded, leafy recess; an arbor.

Arbor

An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.

Bower

A woman's private chamber in a medieval castle; a boudoir.

Arbor

A bar for supporting cutting tools.
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Bower

A rustic cottage; a country retreat.

Arbor

A spindle of a wheel, as in watches and clocks.

Bower

An anchor carried at the bow.

Arbor

Pl. ar·bo·res (ärbə-rēz′) A tree, as opposed to a shrub.

Bower

To enclose in or as if in a bower; embower.

Arbor

A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.

Bower

A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.

Arbor

A grove of trees.

Bower

(literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.

Arbor

An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.

Bower

A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.

Arbor

A bar for supporting cutting tools.

Bower

(ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.

Arbor

A spindle of a wheel.

Bower

A peasant; a farmer.

Arbor

A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower.

Bower

Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.

Arbor

A tree, as distinguished from a shrub.

Bower

(nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.

Arbor

An axle or spindle of a wheel or opinion.

Bower

One who bows or bends.

Arbor

Tree (as opposed to shrub)

Bower

A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.

Arbor

Any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts

Bower

One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.

Arbor

A framework that supports climbing plants;
The arbor provided a shady resting place in the park

Bower

A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.

Bower

To embower; to enclose.

Bower

(obsolete) To lodge.

Bower

One who bows or bends.

Bower

An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.

Bower

A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowersWere wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew.

Bower

One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.

Bower

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.

Bower

A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.

Bower

A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.

Bower

A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.

Bower

To embower; to inclose.

Bower

To lodge.

Bower

A framework that supports climbing plants;
The arbor provided a shady resting place in the park

Bower

Enclose in a bower

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