Obs. [a. Du. bouwer or Ger. bauer: see BOOR.] A peasant, husbandman.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (1840), 192. Of tilthe of lande treteth the boueer.
a. 1563. Bale, Sel. Wks. (1849), 191. Done to death in Frisland by the bowers of the country for teaching a strange religion.
