bower eaves (bouerevz)

pl. The eaves of a bower or bedchamber. A bow-shot from her bower - eaves . Tennyson, Lady of Shalott, iii. bowered (bou'ėrd), a. [ bowerly (bou'èr-li), a. [See burly1.] Large; stout; burly. [Prov. Eng.] Shak., R. and J., iii. 2. bower-maid (bou'er-mad), n. II. in trans. To take shelter; lodge. Spredding pavilions for the birds to bowre. Spenser, F. Q., VI. x. 6. [ bower1 + maid. Cf. ME. bourmaiden.] A young woman in attendance on a lady; a lady's-maid; a waiting-woman. [Now only poetical.] bower2 (bou'er), n. [ or that which bows or bends; specifically, a muscle that bends the joints. His rawbone armes, whose mighty brawned bowrs Were wont to rive steele plates. Spenser, F. Q., I. viii. 41. bower3 (bou'èr), n. [ anchors were formerly of unequal size, and were called the best and small bower respectively; but when (as generally now) of equal size, they are known as the starboard and port bowers. The whaler. made a clumsy piece of work in get ting her anchor, being obliged to let go her best bower , and, finally, to get out a kedge and a hawser. R. H. Dana , Jr., Before the Mast, p. 250.