Bellows




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Bellows \Bel"lows\, n. sing. & pl. [OE. bely, below, belly,
bellows, AS. b[ae]lg, b[ae]lig, 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]
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bellows
n 1: a mechanical device that blows a strong current of air;
used to make a fire burn more fiercely or to sound a
musical instrument
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Bellows
occurs only in Jer. 6:29, in relation to the casting of metal.
Probably they consisted of leather bags similar to those common
in Egypt.

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bellows [belouz]
Blasebalg; Dehngefäß

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bellows

fújtató


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bellows [belouz]
fole

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bellows

Federkörper m; Federbalg m; Faltenbalg m

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