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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Jok·er n.
 1. One who makes jokes or jests.
 2. Card Playing See Best bower, under 2d Bower.
 

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bow·er n.  One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
 Right bower, the knave of the trump suit, the highest card (except the “Joker”) in the game.
 Left bower, the knave of the other suit of the same color as the trump, being the next to the right bower in value.
 Best bower or Joker, in some forms of euchre and some other games, an extra card sometimes added to the pack, which takes precedence of all others as the highest card.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bo·wer n.
 1. One who bows or bends.
 2. Naut. An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
 3. A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. [Obs.]
 His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers
 Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew.   --Spenser.
 Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor.