Bellows vs Bawls - What's the difference?
bellows | bawls |
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.
* , chapter=8
, title= Any flexible container or enclosure, as one used to cover a moving joint.
(informal, or, archaic) The lungs.
(photography) Flexible, light-tight enclosures connecting the lensboard and the camera back.
(bellow)
As verbs the difference between bellows and bawls
is that bellows is third-person singular of bellow while bawls is third-person singular of bawl.As a noun bellows
is 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.bellows
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) belwes, plural of belu, belw, a northern form of beli, from (etyl) . Compare German (m). See also (m).Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}