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 Bow·er·y, n.; pl. Boweries   A farm or plantation with its buildings. [U. S. Hist.]
    The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into =\“villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the habit of doing.”\=   --Bancroft.