'Boweries' definitions:
Definition of 'Boweries'
From: GCIDE
- Bowery \Bow"er*y\, n.; pl. Boweries. [D. bouwerij.] A farm or plantation with its buildings. [U. S. Hist.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]