Definition of "bellows" []

• 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. (noun-plural)

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• "_ 'says I.' For a bellows, 'says she; 'a _bellows_, to blow the fire with."
• "The bellows is a heavy-duty unit: It can handle up to 5,000 pounds of leveling capacity per pair."
• "Some bellows from the home crowd and a rather hollow beating of a drum somewhere as Fabio comes on for Evra."