Bower may refer to:
- a folly built by the Bowerbird to attract mates
- a dwelling or lean-to shelter, also known as an arbor
- an anchor carried at the bow of a ship
- Bower Manuscript, a Sanskrit manuscript
- Bower–Barff process, in metallurgy, a method of coating iron or steel with magnetic iron oxide
- Julian's Bower, various turf mazes in several different parts of England
- 1639 Bower, a namesake of the Bower family of asteroids
Bower may also be:
- An altered spelling of the German family name Bauer
- The right bower and left bower (or bauer), the two highest-ranking cards in the game of euchre
- A woman's bedroom or private apartments, especially in a medieval castle – cf. Boudoir
Famous quotes containing the word bower:
“When men change swords for ledgers, and desert
The students bower for gold, some fears unnamed
I had, my Countryam I to be blamed?”
—William Wordsworth (17701850)
“Adam and Eve, according to the fable, wore the bower before other clothes. Man wanted a home, a place of warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Quoth she, I have loved thee, Little Musgrave,
Full long and many a day;
So have I loved you, faire lady,
Yet never a word durst I say.
I have a bower at Bucklesfordbery,
Full daintyly it is deight;
If thou wilt wend thither, thou Little Musgrave,
Thous lig in mine armes all night.”
—Unknown. Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard (l. 1724)