What does the word lower mean?

Usage examples for lower

  1. Then why don't you make it longer, and lower in the neck? – Betty Wales Freshman by Edith K. Dunton
  2. She shook off her husband, but as he fell he broke her leg so that the lower part came off in his hands. – Legends of Ma-ui--a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina by W. D. Westervelt
  3. Lower the boats at once! – The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad