Bower may refer to:

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Catherine, or The Bower Catharine, or the Bower (''Kitty, or the Bower'') is an unfinished novel from Jane Austen's juvenilia. With its realistic setting and characters, it represents something of a bridge between her early burlesques and the soberer novels that made her ...

'', an unfinished Jane Austen novel * A high-ranking card (usually a Jack) in certain card games: ** The Right and Left Bower (or Bauer), the two highest-ranking cards in the game of

Euchre Euchre or eucre () is a trick-taking card game commonly played in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, and the United States. It is played with a deck of 24, 28, or 32 standard playing cards. Normally there are four players, two o ...

** The Best and Under Bower in the game of Bester Bauer ** The Right and Left Bower in the game of Réunion * Bower Studios, a design studio based in NYC.

Places

* Bower, South Australia, a town *

Bower, Highland Bower ( gd, Bàgair) is a village and civil parish in Highland, Scotland It is 10 miles from Thurso and around 11 miles from Wick. Bower is served by Wick, Thurso and Castletown for shopping, taxis and post offices. Bower's population in 1851 w ...

, Scotland, a village and civil parish * Bower, Nebraska, a ghost town in the United States * Bower, West Virginia, a ghost town in the United States *

Havering-atte-Bower Havering-atte-Bower is a village and outlying settlement of Greater London, England. It is located in the far north of the London Borough of Havering, on the border with Essex, and is northeast of Charing Cross. It was one of three former par ...

, a village within the

London Borough of Havering The London Borough of Havering () in East London, England, forms part of Outer London. It has a population of 259,552 inhabitants; the principal town is Romford, while other communities are Hornchurch, Upminster, Collier Row and Rainham. Th ...

* Mount Bower, Victoria Land, Antarctica

People

* Bower (surname) * Bower Featherstone, Canadian civil servant convicted of espionage in 1966 * E. Bower Carty (1916–2001), Canadian public servant and Chairman of the World Scout Committee *

Roger Squires Roger Squires (born 22 February 1932 in Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, England) is a retired British crossword compiler/setter, living in Ironbridge, Shropshire, who is best known for being the world's most prolific compiler. He compiled under the ...

(born 1932), British retired crossword compiler/setter, one of whose pseudonyms was Bower

Other uses

* The Bower, a building in Jefferson County, West Virginia, on the National Register of Historic Places *

Bower Award The Franklin Institute Awards (or Benjamin Franklin Medal) is an American science and engineering award presented by the Franklin Institute, a science museum in Philadelphia. The Franklin Institute awards comprises the Benjamin Franklin Medals ...

* 1639 Bower, an asteroid *

Bower railway station Bower was a railway station located near Loch Scarmclate, Highland between Halkirk and Wick. The station opened on 28 July 1874. It was one of a number of smaller stations on the Far North Line The Far North Line is a rural railway lin ...

, Highland, Scotland * A sculpture built by a bowerbird to attract a mate * A dwelling or lean-to shelter, also known as a pergola * An

anchor An anchor is a device, normally made of metal , used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin ''ancora'', which itself comes from the Greek ἄ� ...

carried at the bow of a ship * A woman's bedroom or private apartments, especially in a medieval castle – cf.

boudoir A boudoir (; ) is a woman's private sitting room or salon in a furnished residence, usually between the dining room and the bedroom, but can also refer to a woman's private bedroom. The term derives from the French verb ''bouder'' (to sulk ...

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