All 4 Uses of
arbor
in
Arrowsmith
- At the hospital, the hall-man cried, "Shooting case in the Arbor, Doc."†
Chpt 11 *
- The Doctor, and The Doctor alone, was safe by night in the slum called "the Arbor."†
Chpt 11
- It was a wooden house with towers, swings, hammocks, rather mussy shade trees, a rather mangy lawn, a rather damp arbor, and an old carriage-house with a line of steel spikes along the ridge pole.†
Chpt 19 *
- The seedy Pickerbaugh domain was enchanted; the tangled grass was a garden of roses, the ragged grape-arbor a shrine to Diana, the old hammock turned to fringed cloth of silver, the bad-tempered and sputtering lawn-sprinkler a fountain, and over all the world was the proper witchery of moonstruck love.†
Chpt 21
Definitions:
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(arbor as in: shaded arbor) a framework that supports climbing plants; or a shady rest area made by such a framework or by trees and shrubseditor's notes: The framework of an arbor is generally thought of as a wood lattice made to support vines, but it can also be a natural framework such as trees.
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, an arbor can reference various types of rotating machine shafts.