1. bellows - Noun
2. bellows - Verb
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 dictionaryPapa 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