bellow : Idioms & Phrases

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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.
Webster 1913

bellows fish

  • noun small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth
    snipefish.
WordNet
Bel"lows fish`
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) A European fish (Centriscus scolopax), distinguished by a long tubular snout, like the pipe of a bellows; -- called also trumpet fish, and snipe fish.
Webster 1913

Foot bellows

  • a bellows worked by a treadle. Knight.
Webster 1913

Hydrostatic bellows

  • an apparatus consisting of a water-tight bellowslike case with a long, upright tube, into which water may be poured to illustrate the hydrostatic paradox.
  • . See Hydrostatic.
Webster 1913

saul bellow

  • noun United States author (born in Canada) whose novels influenced American literature after World War II (1915-2005)
    Bellow; Saul Bellow.
WordNet

solomon bellow

  • noun United States author (born in Canada) whose novels influenced American literature after World War II (1915-2005)
    Bellow; Saul Bellow.
WordNet

water bellows

Wa"ter bel"lows
Definitions
  1. Same as Tromp.
Webster 1913