bellows

Speech parts

1. bellows - Noun

2. bellows - Verb

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

thunder whetstone yelp mews bellow roaring bellowing bawl boom bark trumpet accordion shout roar yell
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Antonyms

canaries soli crows Hums trolls Carols
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Hypernyms

blower

Phrases with the word

bellows to mend fireplace bellows bellows tongue bellows-type bellows seal

Anagrams

Boswell

Examples

Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out. Markus Zusak

An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind. William Butler Yeats

I came into a place void of all light, which bellows like the sea in tempest, when it is combated by warring winds. Dante Alighieri

Base terms are bellows to a slackening fire. English Proverb

There's no turning a windmill with a pair of bellows. Italian Proverb

Windmills are not driven by bellows. German Proverb

Close letter words and terms

bellowfish Bellowian bellowing bellows expansion joint bellows fish bellows seal