Bellows
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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Bellows Quotations
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
William Hazlitt
The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.
Leland Stanford
Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows.
John Lawson
Bellows Translations
bellows in French is beugle, soufflet
bellows in Latin is follis
bellows in Spanish is fuelle
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