Definitions for Bellows

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Bellows bel·lows

Spelling: [bel-ohz, -uh z]

IPA: /ˈbɛl oʊz, -əz/

Bellows is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in Bellows (bellosw).

Definitions for Bellows

noun

1. 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.
2. anything resembling or suggesting bellows in form, as the collapsible part of a camera or enlarger.
3. the lungs.
4. George Wesley, 1882–1925, U.S. painter and lithographer.
5. an act or sound of bellowing.

verb (used with object)

1. to utter in a loud deep voice:

verb (used without object)

1. to emit a hollow, loud, animal cry, as a bull or cow.
2. to roar; bawl:

Origin of Bellows

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 Examples for Bellows

He's lodged at the Bull, and bellows like one when he speaks of what you owe him.

Rotha could hear the thick breathing of the bellows and the thin tinkle of the anvil.

“Susan Collins was elected 18 years ago, when I was graduating from college,” bellows told The Daily Beast.

And she crushed her last two competitors,  both of whom were better known than bellows.

To be clear, bellows is not a millennial, but rather half a generation older.

A cloth should never be used, for it leaves some lint behind; but take off the dust with a painter's brush, or a pair of bellows.

Another Maine operative, a Democrat who has worked with bellows agreed.

Some operate like bellows, creating an accordion-like sound as they aspirate.

The cottage had once been a smithy, and the bellows had been left in its place.

The man with the bellows jumped down from his bucket and ran eagerly after him.