Usually means: Device for blowing air forcefully.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bellows, bellows: Merriam-Webster
  2. bellows: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bellows: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bellows: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bellows: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bellow's, Bellows, bellows: Wordnik
  7. bellows: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bellows, bellows: Wiktionary
  9. bellows: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bellows: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bellows: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bellows, bellows: Dictionary.com
  13. bellows: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bellows: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bellows (disambiguation), Bellows (musician), Bellows (photography), Bellows (surname), Bellows: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bellows: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bellows: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bellows: Rhymezone
  19. Bellows: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bellows: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Bellows: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. bellows: FreeDictionary.org
  23. bellows: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Bellows: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. bellows: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. bellows: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bellows: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bellows: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. bellows: Medical dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bellows: Easton Bible
  2. Bellows: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bellows, bellows: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Bellows: Urban Dictionary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Common Hearth and Heating Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bellows: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  5. Glossary of Film/Video Terms (No longer online)
  6. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  7. BELLOWS: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. At its most simple terms a bellows is a container which is deformable in such a way as to alter its volume which has an outlet or outlets where one wishes to blow air.
noun:  Any flexible container or enclosure, as one used to cover a moving joint.
noun:  (informal or archaic) The lungs.
noun:  (photography) Flexible, light-tight enclosures connecting the lensboard and the camera back.
noun:  (figurative) That which fans the fire of hatred, jealousy, etc.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To operate a bellows; to direct air at (something) using a bellows.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To expand and contract like a bellows.
verb:  (transitive) To fold up like a bellows; to accordion.

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