Hower vs Bower - What's the difference?
hower | bower |
:* [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.
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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, 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 a noun hower
is .As a proper noun bower is
.hower
English
Noun
(s)- 1880'-'''1881 : Clements R Markham (editor), ''The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622
Anagrams
* *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.