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Definition of Bellows

1. Noun. A mechanical device that blows a strong current of air; used to make a fire burn more fiercely or to sound a musical instrument.

Definition of Bellows

1. n. sing. & pl. An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipes of an organ with wind.

Definition of Bellows

1. Noun. A device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. At its most simple terms a bellows is a container which is deformable in such a way as to alter its volume which has an outlet or outlets where one wishes to blow air. ¹

2. Noun. Any flexible container or enclosure, as one used to cover a moving joint. ¹

3. Noun. (informal or archaic) The lungs. ¹

4. Noun. (photography) Flexible, light-tight enclosures connecting the lensboard and the camera back. ¹

5. Noun. (plural of bellow) ¹

6. Verb. (third-person singular of bellow) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bellows

1. bellow [v] - See also: bellow

Medical Definition of Bellows

1. Flexible mechanical structure with walls like those of an accordion. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bellows

Literary usage of Bellows

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1833)
"On applying his ear to this child's head, to his surprise he heard a very loud and distinct bellows-sound, resembling that caused by certain diseases of the ..."

2. The Organ by Sir John Stainer, John Stainer, F. Flaxington Harker (1909)
"Horizontal bellows. It is, however, quite certain that no great advance in the construction of the instrument was possible until the bellows was improved. ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1904)
"He had had the good fortune to know the late John bellows for forty years ... John bellows was a many-sided man, and he did not think any one person could ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1891)
"At the left is seen a small porta- lile furnace on wheels, to which blast is supplied by the bellows h, of a forge. When this is used as a forge, ..."

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