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# bellows

«bellows» in Mova's school dictionary: **A tool with handles and a soft folding middle that pushes…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (bellows — plural in form; a pair of bellows); verb form (bellow, bellows, bellowed, bellowing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tool with handles and a soft folding middle that pushes out a strong stream of air when you squeeze it, used to make a fire burn hotter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bellows/#m1)

2) The folding air part of an accordion, organ or old camera. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bellows/#m2)

3) «Bellows» is also the -s form of the verb «bellow»: to shout or roar loudly. «He bellows at the dog.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bellows/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history and science lessons blacksmiths used bellows to blow air into fires to make them hot enough to melt metal: more oxygen makes a fire burn hotter. Our lungs work a bit like bellows. In stories a giant or angry man «bellows» orders.

### examples

- The blacksmith pumped the bellows to make the fire glow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bellows/#x1)
- Grandpa uses a pair of bellows to start the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bellows/#x2)
- The accordion's bellows squeezed in and out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bellows/#x3)
- Our lungs work a bit like bellows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bellows/#x4)
- The coach bellows at us from the side of the pitch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bellows/#x5)
- The bull bellows in the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bellows/#x6)
- So there John blew his bellows and hammered his iron and did all the work which came his way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bellows/#x7)

### note

«Bellows» the tool is singular or plural: «the bellows is» or «the bellows are»; «a pair of bellows». Say «BELL-ohz». The verb «bellow» means shout loudly — a different meaning.

### In the corpora

- [«LIGHTS OFF, YOU TWO,» Maddie's dad bellows up the stairs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/462-sleepovers-and-inside-jokes/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bellows» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bellows/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.