Bellows
Bellows ({not transcribed}) , noun, singular and plural
[Old English bely, below, belly, bellows, Anglo-Saxon balg, balig, bag, bellows, belly. Bellows is prop. a pl. and the orig. sense is bag. See Belly.]
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.
Collocations (3)
Bellows camera , in photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn out like an accordion or bellows.
Hydrostatic bellows , See Hydrostatic.
A pair of bellows , 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.