Bellows

Quick meaning: Bellows is a noun meaning Any flexible container or enclosure, as one used to cover a moving joint.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (informal or archaic) The lungs.
2. (photography) Flexible, light-tight enclosures connecting the lensboard and the camera back.
3. (figurative) That which fans the fire of hatred, jealousy, etc.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To operate a bellows; to direct air at (something) using a bellows.
5. (intransitive, figuratively) To expand and contract like a bellows.
6. (transitive) To fold up like a bellows; to accordion.
7. 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.

Example Sentences

When wood fires were common, so were bellows for helping start them.

[…] I was recommended to the place as a man who could give another man as good as he brought, and I took it. It’s easier than bellowsing and hammering.

He almost let the cigar go out. ‘Good God, no. We’re both exiles, aren’t we?’ He bellowsed the end red again and continued, delicate as a musician, his scoring.

So bellowsed, all the kindled soul of Hugh Became a still white hell of brooding ire, And through his veins regenerating fire Ran, driving out the lethargy of pain.

Word Forms

• bellowses
• bellowsing
• bellowsed

Synonyms for bellows

Depending on context, synonyms include blower.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blower, behind, rants, roars, roar, shout.

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