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Bowel vs Bower - What's the difference?

bowel | bower |

As a noun bowel

is (chiefly|medicine) a part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.

As a verb bowel

is to disembowel.

As a proper noun bower is

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bowel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, medicine) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
  • (in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
  • * 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts I:
    • And when he was hanged, brast asondre in the myddes, and all his bowels gusshed out.
  • (in the plural) The (deep) interior of something.
    • The treasures were stored in the bowels of the ship.
  • * 1592 , , I. i. 129:
    • His soldiers cried out amain, / And rushed into the bowels of the battle.
  • (in the plural, archaic) The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.
  • * 1602 , , II. i. 48:
    • Thou thing of no bowels , thou!
  • * Fuller
    • Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels .
  • (obsolete, in plural) offspring
  • * 1604 , , III. i. 29:
    • Friend hast thou none, / For thine own bowels , which do call thee sire,

    Derived terms

    * bowel cancer * bowel movement * bowel obstruction * bowelless * disbowel * disembowel * embowel * irritable bowel syndrome * large bowel * unbowel

    Verb

    (bowell)
  • To disembowel.
  • * 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, page 149:
    • Their bodies are first bowelled , then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].

    See also

    * large bowel * small bowel * small intestine * colon * laxative * tharm

    Anagrams

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    bower

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
  • * Gascoigne
    • Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower .
  • (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
    • (Shenstone)
  • A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
  • * 1599 ,
    • 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;
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  • (ornithology) A large structure made of grass and bright objects, used by the bower bird during courtship displays.
    • Synonyms
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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To embower; to enclose.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To lodge.
    • (Spenser)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) boueer, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A peasant; a farmer.

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) Bauer.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
    • Derived terms
    * best bower * left bower * right bower

    Etymology 4

    From the bow of a ship

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
  • One who bows or bends.
  • A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
  • * Spenser
    • His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers / Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew.

    Etymology 5

    From bough, compare brancher.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
    • (Webster 1913)