Cooper vs Bower - What's the difference?
cooper | bower |
A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Daniel Cooper (~1817-1842).
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 ,
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, 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
As proper nouns the difference between cooper and bower
is that cooper is {{surname|A=An|English occupational|from=occupations}} derived from cooper while Bower is {{surname}.As nouns the difference between cooper and bower
is that cooper is a craftsman who makes and repairs barrels and similar wooden vessels such as casks, buckets and tubs while bower is a bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.As verbs the difference between cooper and bower
is that cooper is to make and repair barrels etc while bower is to embower; to enclose.cooper
Translingual
Proper noun
(mul-proper noun)External links
*Author query of the International Plant Names Index----
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.