Usually means: Primary anchor at ship's bow.
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  1. bower anchor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. bower-anchor: Wordnik
  3. bower anchor: Wiktionary
  4. bower anchor: Dictionary.com
  5. Bower Anchor: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  6. bower anchor: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bower anchor)

noun:  (nautical) each of the two main anchors of a ship, carried permanently attached to their cables on each side of the bow, always ready to be let go in case of an emergency.

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