Bower vs Bowser - What's the difference?
bower | bowser |
A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
* Gascoigne
(literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
* 1599 ,
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, chapter=1 (ornithology) A large structure made of grass and bright objects, used by the bower bird during courtship displays.
(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
A fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station.
* 2001 , Michael Gordon, Reconciliation: A Journey ,
* 2008 , Adrian Scott, The Road Gets Better from Here ,
* 2010 , David Nichols, Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields , footnote citing 1926 report,
A road vehicle (often a trailer) for the transport of liquid fuel, particularly aviation fuel at an airfield.
* 1962 , The All England Law Reports , Volume 3,
* 2003 , Andy Saunders, No 43 ‘Fighting Cocks’ Squadron ,
(British) A mobile water tank deployed to distribute fresh water in emergency situations where the normal system of piped distribution has broken down or is insufficient.
* 1999 May 12, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard) ,
* 2000 , Louis L. Jacobs, Quest for the African Dinosaurs: Ancient Roots of the Modern World ,
* 2010 , P. Dissanayake, N. Weragala, V. Smakhtin, Environmental Flow Assessment: Recent Examples from Sri Lanka'', Alexandra Evans, K. Jinapala (editors), ''Proceedings of the National Conference on Water, Food Security and Climate Change in Sri Lanka , Volume 2,
(Irish, slang, used in the vocative) A derogatory term of address for a person similar to buffoon or imbecile.
As a proper noun bower
is .As a noun bowser is
a fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station.bower
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower .
- (Shenstone)
- 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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Synonyms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) boueer, from (etyl) .Etymology 3
From (etyl) Bauer.Derived terms
* best bower * left bower * right bowerEtymology 4
From the bow of a shipNoun
(en noun)- His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers / Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew.
Etymology 5
From bough, compare brancher.bowser
English
Noun
(en noun)page 18,
- ‘Kids are breaking into the service station bowsers' at night, draining out the dregs of petrol from the ' bowser hoses, wandering the streets sniffing petrol from Coke bottles all night,’ he said.
page 165,
- I needed at least fifteen litres more petrol in my tank to reach the next major settlement and, unlike China, there were no shiny new gas stations here with bowsers of different types of petrol to choose from, nor were there pretty young gas girls in nice uniforms ready to fill ‘er up – in fact there were no gas stations here at all; petrol was bought and sold strictly off market in private transactions.
page 309,
- The Moree Municipal Council decided to devote the revenue derived from the rent of the bowser petrol pumps within the municipality for this year, which amounted to forty guineas.
page 435,
- The bowsers then go out to the aircraft and supply them with petrol.
page 107,
- By the time No 43 Sqn was given permission to land it was quite dark, and so to assist the pilots in what were to be difficult night landings two petrol bowsers' were parked to ‘illuminate’ the runway with their dim blackout headlights. Perhaps, all things considered, the use of petrol ' bowsers for this particular task was not exactly wise.
page 588,
- Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as hon. Shidie has said, there is no water bowser' in Garissa and he categorically said that there is a water '''bowser''' to supply water to the people of Kulan. Could he give the registration number of this water ' bowser which is supplying water to the people of Kulan?
page 112,
- The water bowser needed filling.
page 29,
- Due to increasing levels of water pollution arising from low flows, water becomes unsuitable for bathing during this period and is satisfied by bowser water supply.
