different between hower vs bower

English

Noun

hower (plural howers)

1. Obsolete spelling of hour
   • 1880-1881: Clements R Markham (editor), The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622

     [O]ur men receaued no other recreation from work and sleep, but onlie the time of eateing their meat, whereof they had sufficient, thrice in every twenty-four howers; and besides, some of them had alowed aquauitæ at ech four hower's end.

Anagrams

• how're, who're, whore

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)

1. 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.

2. (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
3. 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; […]
4. (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)

1. To embower; to enclose.
2. (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)

1. A peasant; a farmer.

Etymology 3

From German Bauer.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• best bower
• left bower
• right bower

Etymology 4

From the bow of a ship +? -er.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

1. (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)

1. One who bows or bends.
2. A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.

Etymology 6

From bow (noun) +? -er.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

1. 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)

1. (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