dower

5 letters · noun · scores 800 in SpellHuntr

noun

money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage

verb

furnish with an endowment

Dower in a sentence

In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.

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