bellows

  1. 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.
  2. Noun.  Any flexible container or enclosure, as one used to cover a moving joint.
  3. Noun.  (informal, or) The lungs.
  4. Noun.  (photography) Flexible, light-tight enclosures connecting the lensboard and the camera back.
  5. Noun.  (plural of, bellow) .
  6. Verb.  (third-person singular of, bellow) .

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