Bellows Definition

bĕlōz, -əz
noun
An apparatus for producing a strong current of air, as for sounding a pipe organ or increasing the draft to a fire, consisting of a flexible, valved air chamber that is contracted and expanded by pumping to force the air through a nozzle.
American Heritage
A device that produces a stream of air through a narrow tube when its sides are pressed together: used in pipe organs, for blowing fires, etc.
Webster's New World
Something, such as the pleated windbag of an accordion, that resembles this apparatus.
American Heritage
Anything like a bellows, as the lungs, the compressible part of an accordion, etc.
Webster's New World
The lungs.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
verb

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bellow.

Wiktionary

Origin of Bellows

  • Middle English belowes from Old English belgas pl. of belg bhelgh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English belwes, plural of belu, belw, a northern form of beli, from Old English belg

    From Wiktionary

  • See bellow

    From Wiktionary

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