bower

from The Century Dictionary.

• 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.
• To inclose in a bower, or as in a bower; embower; inclose.
• To take shelter; lodge.
• 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 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 In falconry, a young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and to clamber on the boughs. Also called bowess, bowet.
• 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.

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.
• noun (Falconry), obsolete A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
• transitive verb To embower; to inclose.
• intransitive verb obsolete To lodge.

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

• noun Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
• noun A peasant; a farmer.
• noun nautical A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
• 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