arbor

A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.

• Our tacit treaty with Miss Maudie was that we could play on her lawn, eat her scuppernongs if we didn’t jump on the arbor, and explore her vast back lot,
• Children swung from the branches of the banyan tree, teenagers climbed into the arbours of orchids and gourds into which the abandoned cars had been transformed.

A grove of trees.

An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.

A bar for supporting cutting tools.

A spindle of a wheel.