Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Literally, a tree: used in this sense chiefly in botanical names.
- noun In mech.: The main support or beam of a machine.
- noun The principal spindle or axis of a wheel or pinion communicating motion to the other moving parts.
- noun A platform of boards upon which sea-island cotton is dried to prevent heating and improve the luster.
- noun A grass-plot; a lawn; a green.
- noun A garden of herbs or of flowering plants; a flower-bed or flower-garden.
- noun 3. A collection of fruit-trees; an orchard.
- noun A bower formed by trees, shrubs, or vines intertwined, or trained over a latticework, so as to make a leafy roof, and usually provided with seats; formerly, any shaded walk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower.
- noun (Bot.) A tree, as distinguished from a shrub.
- noun An axle or spindle of a wheel or opinion.
- noun A mandrel in lathe turning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
shady sitting place , usually in a park or garden, and usually surrounded by climbing shrubs or vines and other vegetation. - noun A
grove oftrees . - noun An
axis orshaft supporting arotating part on alathe . - noun A
bar for supportingcutting tools . - noun A
spindle of awheel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tree (as opposed to shrub)
- noun a framework that supports climbing plants
- noun any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
Etymologies
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Examples
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No. The arbor is actually a medium size, meaning larger than normal but unfortunately not as big as many models.
Fly Reel 2007
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The wall of the canal presents an anterior and a posterior longitudinal ridge, from each of which proceed a number of small oblique columns, the palmate folds, giving the appearance of branches from the stem of a tree; to this arrangement the name arbor vitæ uterina is applied.
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In front of the arbor was a parterre of rounded box-bushes edging beds where disorderly roses hung in clusters of pink and purple and apricot-color.
Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1933
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My arbor was a shady little retreat that gave me a complete illusion of country; from the far side of the old wall came the song of the tropical birds belonging to Antoinette's mother, and I heard the rollicking warble and twitter of the swallows perched on the house-top, and the chirp of the common sparrows as they flew about among the trees in the garden.
The Story of a Child Pierre Loti 1886
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The arbor was a simple affair, and easily copied from your sketch, and your portrait, my aunt thinks, is excellent -- but is the lady right? 'she repeated, turning towards him.
The Rivals: A Chickahominy Story Mary Jane 1864
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On the other end of the arbor is a grooved pulley, over which passes a silken cord, which also passes round a delicate band-wheel, I, below, and by which, motion is communicated to the arbor and sounding wheel.
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In years past, the arbor was the setting for a few powwows, either traditional or contest; with economic restrictions, the two powwows were combined into one.
Minot Daily News 2010
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The sockets of the metal slitting saw blades refer to the standardized diameter of the cutter arbor which is used as clamping means.
2. Types of milling tools to be applied Dieter Frank 1990
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I was sitting that evening in the garden, in a kind of arbor, covered with weeping-vines.
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They had built a kind of arbor, or pavilion, covered with branches, for dancing, and around this the people gathered while Mr. Brinson talked to them of the importance and necessity of education for every one, and I told them of the helpfulness of a comfortable and attractive school-house and pictures, and how they might improve and beautify the school-house by a little effort.
The Woman's Association for the Betterment of Public School Houses in North Carolina Robert Digges Wimberly 1906
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