Meaning of Arbor | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
2. An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
3. A grove of trees.
4. A bar for supporting cutting tools.
5. A spindle of a wheel.

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Examples

“Our tacit treaty with Miss Maudie was that we could play on her lawn, eat her scuppernongs if we didn’t jump on the arbor, and explore her vast back lot,”

“Children swung from the branches of the banyan tree, teenagers climbed into the arbours of orchids and gourds into which the abandoned cars had been transformed.”

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