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bellows

[ US /ˈbɛɫoʊz/ ]
[ UK /bˈɛlə‍ʊz/ ]
NOUN
  1. (used in the plural) a mechanical device that blows a strong current of air; used to make a fire burn more fiercely or to sound a musical instrument

How To Use bellows In A Sentence

  • The use of steam-driven bellows in blast furnaces helped ironmakers switch over from charcoal (limited in quantity) to coke, which is made from coal, in the smelting of pig iron.
  • I was anxious as I drove Route 40 through the shaley, steep bit of country, where the hills are close like the bellows of an accordion. CHASING the WHITE DOG
  • Still Galen appears by this experiment to prove both that the pulsative property extends from the heart by the walls of the arteries, and that the arteries, whilst they dilate, are filled by that pulsific force, because they expand like bellows, and do not dilate as if they are filled like skins. Introduction
  • A wind instrument, it has bellows into which compressed air is pumped.
  • Other times I sought refuge in the safe haven of grandfather's forge and helped him to make sickles or horseshoes by manning the big bellows.
  • The Coalbrookdale Company had smelted its last iron in the area by 1821, and that year had dismantled the Resolution steam engine that pumped water up the dale to power the furnace bellows.
  • He points to a little button which allows air to whoosh out of the bellows so that they can be closed. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was connected to a pair of bellows, they in turn were feeding a long tube. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • The muffled bellows were the only sounds he could make as his face was pushed closer and closer to the glowing rings.
  • He points to a little button which allows air to whoosh out of the bellows so that they can be closed. Times, Sunday Times
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