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bellows

[bel-ohz, -uhz]

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noun (used with a singular or plural verb)

a device for producing a strong current of air, consisting of a chamber that can be expanded to draw in air through a valve and contracted to expel it through a tube.

anything resembling or suggesting bellows in form, as the collapsible part of a camera or enlarger.

the lungs.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English bel(o)wes (plural), Old English belg, short for blǣst belg, plural belgas blast-bag; cognate with Dutch blaasbalg, German Blasebalg, Old Norse belgr. See belly

Related forms

bel·lows·like, adjective

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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noun

George Wesley, 1882–1925, U.S. painter and lithographer.

verb (used without object)

to emit a hollow, loud, animal cry, as a bull or cow.

to roar; bawl: bellowing with rage.

verb (used with object)

to utter in a loud deep voice: He bellowed his command across the room.

noun

an act or sound of bellowing.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English belwen, akin to Old English bylgan to roar (compare for the vowel Old High German bullôn); extended form akin to bell²

Related forms

bel·low·er, noun

out·bel·low, verb (used with object)

Synonyms
2. See cry.

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bellows (ˈbɛləʊz)

—n
1.	Also called: pair of bellows an instrument consisting of an air chamber with flexible sides or end, a means of compressing it, an inlet valve, and a constricted outlet that is used to create a stream of air, as for producing a draught for a fire or for sounding organ pipes
2.	photog a telescopic light-tight sleeve, connecting the lens system of some cameras to the body of the instrument
3.	a flexible corrugated element used as an expansion joint, pump, or means of transmitting axial motion

[C16: from plural of Old English beligbelly]

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bellows

c.1200, belwes pl. of belu, belw, northern form of beli, from late O.E. belg (see belly), reduced from blæstbælg, lit. "blowing bag." Used exclusively in plural since 15c.

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