noun plural. undefined

noun plural. 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.

noun plural. Something, such as the pleated windbag of an accordion, that resembles this apparatus.

noun plural. The lungs.

In photography, that part of a camera which connects the front and back portions and is capable of being extended or closed as desired.

In organ-building, the extensive apparatus by which air is supplied and compressed for the sounding of the pipes.

An instrument or machine for producing a current of air: principally used for blowing fire, either in private dwellings or in forges, furnaces, mines, etc.; also used in organs for producing the current of air by which the pipes and reeds are sounded.

noun. 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.

noun. in photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn out like an accordion or bellows.

noun. See Hydrostatic.

noun. the ordinary household instrument for blowing fires, consisting of two nearly heart-shaped boards with handles, connected by leather, and having a valve and tube.

noun. Plural form of bellow.

verb. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bellow.

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.

noun. Any flexible container or enclosure, as one used to cover a moving joint.

noun. The lungs.

noun. Flexible, light-tight enclosures connecting the lensboard and the camera back.

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

"_ 'says I.' For a bellows, 'says she; 'a _bellows_, to blow the fire with."

blindman's bellows  facings bellows  hessian bellows  hydrostatic bellows  

belly  blow  

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