bellows
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 →
2) The folding air part of an accordion, organ or old camera. tree →
3) «Bellows» is also the -s form of the verb «bellow»: to shout or roar loudly. «He bellows at the dog.» tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A tool for blowing a fire hotter, used by metalworkers to refine silver. Interpretation: Jeremiah pictures Israel as metal in a furnace that stays impure even after fierce heating, showing how stubborn the wicked are. In the primary 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 bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed of the fire; in vain doth the founder refine, for the wicked are not separated. (Prophets JER.6.29, JPS 1917) tree →
- The blacksmith pumped the bellows to make the fire glow. tree →
- Grandpa uses a pair of bellows to start the fire. tree →
- The accordion's bellows squeezed in and out. tree →
- Our lungs work a bit like bellows. tree →
- The coach bellows at us from the side of the pitch. tree →
- The bull bellows in the field. tree →
- So there John blew his bellows and hammered his iron and did all the work which came his way. tree →
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
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «bellows» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.