Bellows
['beləʊz] or ['bɛloz]
Definition
(noun.) 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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Definition
(n. sing. & pl.) 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.
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Definition
n.pl. an instrument for producing a current of air so as to blow up a fire either in a kitchen a furnace or a forge—or for producing the current of air by which the pipes and reeds of an organ are sounded: (fig.) that which fans the fire of hatred jealousy &c.: the lungs.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Working a bellows, denotes a struggle, but a final triumph over poverty and fate by energy and perseverance. To dream of seeing a bellows, distant friends are longing to see you. To hear one, occult knowledge will be obtained by the help of powerful means. One fallen into disuse, portends you have wasted energies under misguiding impulses.
Editor: Vanessa
Examples
- Never mind him, my dear,' said the Jew, winking at Mr. Dawkins, and giving Master Bates a reproving tap with the nozzle of the bellows. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- But here was Brother Bellows, who had been in the great Bank case, and who could probably tell us more. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Clym hastily put together the logs on the hearth, raked abroad the embers, which were scarcely yet extinct, and blew up a flame with the bellows. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Give her a whiff of fresh air with the bellows, Charley,' said Mr. Dawkins; 'and you slap her hands, Fagin, while Bill undoes the petticuts. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- No gleam of fire, no glittering shower of sparks, no roar of bellows; all shut up, and still. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Near the bottom of the apparatus is a bellows O, which contains a spring tending to keep the lever N, with which it is connected by a rod X, in the position shown. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- There's a hole in thy poor bellows nowadays seemingly. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The heels of the workman, alternately raised, form alternately acting valves, and the skin cover, when depressed, acts as a bellows. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The Saracens produced from their baskets a quantity of charcoal, a pair of bellows, and a flask of oil. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- On seeing the master enter, the old woman stopped with the bellows on her knee, and said something that I thought sounded like 'My Charley! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- What did Brother Bellows put this new success at? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In this manner ore and fuel are supplied and the bellows urged for three or four hours. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I say he bellows! Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Brothers Bellows and Bench struck in. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The first notable development of the Nineteenth Century was the introduction of the hot air blast in forges and furnaces where bellows or blowing apparatus was required. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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