Found 1 hit - Term: a pair of bellows, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bellows \bel"lows\, n. sing. pl. oe. bely, below, belly,
bellows, as. baelg, baelig, 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.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
see also:
belly bellows camera hydrostatic bellows hydrostatic a pair of bellows
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