Literary notes about arbor (AI summary)
The word “arbor” is employed in a variety of ways across literature, highlighting both its literal and metaphorical resonances. In some narratives, it refers to a garden structure—a peaceful haven or a setting for social encounters, as seen when characters gather beneath a shaded retreat or by an enchanting bower ([1], [2], [3]). In other texts, it assumes symbolic weight, invoking the imagery of life and growth akin to the "tree of life" ([4], [5]). Beyond these poetic and pastoral connotations, technical writings also adopt the term to denote mechanical components, such as the spindle in a watch mechanism, thereby underlining its adaptability across very different contexts ([6], [7], [8], [9]).
- They went on then in this Enchanted Ground till they came to where was another arbor, and it was built by the highway-side.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan - Tom and Eva were seated on a little mossy seat, in an arbor, at the foot of the garden.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe - They went out to the honeysuckle arbor, where Mr. Allan was awaiting them.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery - The branch is emblematic of the arbor vitæ , or tree of life, and its powers of sprouting.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism by Thomas Inman and M.R.C.S.E. John Newton - 11 is from Pugin, plate xix., and represents the arbor vitæ , the branch , or tree of life, as a triad, with which the ring is united.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism by Thomas Inman and M.R.C.S.E. John Newton - The inner end is attached to the arbor of the balance-wheel , the outer end to a stud projecting from the plate of the watch.
— from How it Works by Archibald Williams - The mainspring is a long steel ribbon fixed at one end to an arbor (the watchmaker's name for a spindle or axle), round which it is tightly wound.
— from How it Works by Archibald Williams - A ratchet prevents the arbor from being turned backwards by the spring.
— from How it Works by Archibald Williams - On the arbor of the balance-wheel is a roller, or plate, R , which carries a small pin, I .
— from How it Works by Archibald Williams
