a piece of equipment for blowing air into or through something. Bellows are used for making a fire burn better or for producing sound in some types of musical instruments. 风箱;吹风器 a pair of bellows (= a small bellows with two handles to be pushed together) 手用吹风器(俗称皮老虎)
Word OriginMiddle English: probably from Old English belga, plural of belig ‘bag’, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘swell, be inflated’, used as a shortened form of earlier blǣstbelig ‘blowing bag’.