Word Meanings - BOWER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An anchor carried at the bow of a ship. 3. A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. Spenser. Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor. (more

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An anchor carried at the bow of a ship. 3. A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. Spenser. Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor. (more info) 1. One who bows or bends.

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