bower

from The Century Dictionary.

• To inclose in a bower, or as in a bower; embower; inclose.
• To take shelter; lodge.
• noun A peasant; a farmer.
• noun A bow-maker; a bowyer.
• noun One who plays with a bow on a violin or other stringed instrument.
• noun A person who rents or leases the dairy stock on a farm, together with pasture and fodder for them, and makes what he can from their produce, the cultivation of the farm still remaining with the farmer or proprietor.
• noun A dwelling or habitation; particularly, a cottage; an unpretentious residence; a rustic abode.
• noun An inner room; any room in a house except the hall or public room; hence, a bedchamber.
• noun Especially, a lady's private chamber; a boudoir.
• noun A shelter made with boughs or twining plants; an arbor; a shady recess.
• noun One who or that which bows or bends; specifically, a muscle that bends the joints.
• noun An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
• noun In euchre, one of the two highest cards, or, if the joker is used, the second or third highest.
• noun In falconry, a young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and to clamber on the boughs. Also called bowess, bowet.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun One who bows or bends.
• noun (Naut.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
• noun obsolete A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
• noun See the Note under Anchor.
• noun One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
• noun the knave of the trump suit, the highest card (except the “Joker”) in the game.
• noun the knave of the other suit of the same color as the trump, being the next to the right bower in value.
• noun in some forms of euchre and some other games, an extra card sometimes added to the pack, which takes precedence of all others as the highest card.
• noun Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment.
• noun A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.
• noun A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.
• transitive verb To embower; to inclose.
• noun (Falconry), obsolete A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
• intransitive verb obsolete To lodge.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
• noun nautical A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
• noun A peasant; a farmer.
• noun A woman's bedroom or private apartments, especially in a medieval castle.
• noun literary A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
• noun A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
• noun ornithology A large structure made of grass and bright objects, used by the bower bird during courtship displays.
• noun obsolete, falconry A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb enclose in a bower
• noun a framework that supports climbing plants