arbor

¹

[ ahr-ber ]

noun

1. a leafy, shady recess formed by tree branches, shrubs, etc.
2. a latticework bower intertwined with climbing vines and flowers.
3. Obsolete. a grass plot; lawn; garden; orchard.

arbor

²

[ ahr-ber ]

noun

1. Machinery.
   1. a bar, shaft, or axis that holds, turns, or supports a rotating cutting tool or grinding wheel, often having a tapered shank fitting tightly into the spindle of a machine tool. Compare mandrel.
   2. a beam, shaft, axle, or spindle.
2. Metallurgy. a reinforcing member of a core or mold.

arbor

³

[ ahr-ber ]

noun

, Botany.

, plural ar·bo·res [ahr, -b, uh, -reez].

1. a tree.

arbor

¹

/ ˈɑːbə /

noun

1. a rotating shaft in a machine or power tool on which a milling cutter or grinding wheel is fitted
2. a rotating shaft or mandrel on which a workpiece is fitted for machining
3. metallurgy a part, piece, or structure used to reinforce the core of a mould

arbor

²

/ ˈɑːbə /

noun

1. See arbour
   the US spelling of arbour

Other Words From

• arbo·resque adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of arbor¹

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English (h)erber, erba(i)re, arbere “(flower) garden, pleasure garden, herb garden,” Anglo-French (h)erber, Old French (h)erbier “grassy place, herb garden”; respelling with -or under the influence of arbor ³

Origin of arbor²

First recorded in 1650–60; from French, arbre “tree, axis,” from Latin arbor “tree, mast, (spear) shaft, oar”; respelling of earlier arber, arbre by association with arbor ³

Origin of arbor³

First recorded in 1660–70; from New Latin, Latin; arbor ²( def )

Word History and Origins

Origin of arbor¹

C17: from Latin: tree, mast

Example Sentences

Arbor House wants to buy the next two Leonard novels for $3 million.

From The Daily Beast

Arbor House, which is where he wanted to go anyway, buys the ten-year-old book for more than $300,000.

From The Daily Beast

Arbor House is paying Leonard $3 million for Freaky Deaky, the one in the typewriter now, and the one after it.

From The Daily Beast

The 21-year-old, who studied at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business in Ann Arbor, Michigan, had suffered an epileptic seizure.

From The Daily Beast

In 2013, Erhardt studied at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

From The Daily Beast

The outer end of the mainspring is attached to the rim of the barrel, and the inner end to the barrel arbor.

From Project Gutenberg

On the circumference of the barrel are gear teeth, and those teeth engage corresponding teeth on the arbor of the center.

From Project Gutenberg

These arbor teeth are in all cases called, not “wheels” but “pinions,” and in watch trains the wheels always drive the pinions.

From Project Gutenberg

When that wheel turns to the right, as it must, it will force back the arm of the pallet which swings on its arbor.

From Project Gutenberg

The studio had disappeared under the verdant arbor, while a wonderful spangled tree rose like a fairy dream, in one corner.

From Project Gutenberg

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