[a. Ger. bauer peasant, one sense of which is ‘knave at cards.’] In the game of Euchre the name of the two highest cards—the knave of trumps, and the knave of the same color, called right and left bower, respectively.
a. 1871. Bret Harte, Heathen Chinee. At last he put down a right bower, Which the same Nye had dealt unto me.
1884. Detroit Free Press, Oct. (Negro Orator) De black man has de bowers in his hand.
