Bower
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Bower may refer to:
- a folly built by the Bowerbird to attract mates; see wiktionary:bower.
- 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
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People
- Adrian Bower, English actor
- Archibald Bower (1686 – 1766), Scottish historian
- B. M. Bower (1871 – 1940), American novelist
- Billy Bower, English footballer who played for Clapton Orient
- David Bower, Welsh deaf actor
- E. Nott-Bower, British archer
- Edward Bower, early 17th-century English portrait painter
- Frederick Orpen Bower, British botanist
- Graham John Bower, Irish diplomat
- Gordon H. Bower, American cognitive psychologist
- Jeff Bower, American football coach
- Jeff Bower, American basketball executive
- Jimmy Bower, American heavy metal guitarist
- Johnny Bower, Canadian hockey goaltender
- John Nott-Bower, British policeman
- Mark Bower (born 1980), English footballer
- Marvin Bower, American lawyer
- Matthew Bower, British musician
- Michael Bower, American actor
- Norman Adolph Henry Bower, British Conservative politician
- Paul Bower (born 1988), Australian rules footballer
- Scott Bower, American soccer player
- Shane Bower (wrestler), Canadian professional wrestler
- Steve Bower, British radio presenter
- Thomas Bower, English architect
- Tom Bower, British writer
- Walter Bower (1385–1449), Scottish chronicler
- Bower (crossword compiler) whose real name is Roger Squires
- Bower, Character in the film Green Street Hooligans
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Places
- Bower Hinton, a part of the village of Martock, Somerset, United Kingdom
- Bower Ashton, a district of Bristol, England
- Bower's Hill, Virginia, a community located in the independent city of Chesapeake, Virginia, U.S.
- Havering-atte-Bower, a village in the London Borough of Havering, England
- Fairy Bower, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia
- Bower, South Australia
- Bower, Northumberland
- Bower, Highland, a parish of the former county of Caithness
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See also
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