单词 | pair of bellows |
释义 | > as lemmaspair of bellows a. An instrument or machine of this kind used to blow a fire; it may be portable, as the common hand-bellows, or fixed, as a smith's bellows. Often, with reference to the two halves or handles, called a pair of bellows, rarely, as singular, a bellows. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > forging equipment > bellows bellowsa800 fire blower?a1440 fire bellows?a1500 ball-bellows1634 fire fan1875 α. β. 1398 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 250 Unum par de melioribus bellows.a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Jer. vi. 29 The belu [v.r. belw, bely] failide, leed is waastid in the fier.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 30 Belowe [ed. Pynson 1499, belows], follis.1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 23 A peyre tongys, and a peyre belwys.1483 Cath. Angl. 27 A Bellowe [v.r. belowys or belice], follis.?1555 M. Coverdale tr. Hope of Faythful xxvii. 184 The lordes breth, which is..as a belowes.1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Piv/1 A Belowe, follis.1611 Bible (King James) Jer. vi. 29 The bellowes are burnt, the lead is consumed of the fire. View more context for this quotation1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall x. 74 The blasts of a pair of Bellows.1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads xviii. 427 Twenty Bellowses in all he had.1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires v. 60 Thou.., like a Bellows, swell'st thy face.1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 137 The Bellows..blows so much the stronger.1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 139 A pair of Bellows that blow constantly.1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xviii. 585 Full twenty bellows working all at once.1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain xiv. 250 The people make use of a hollow cane instead of a bellows.1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 26 Taking the bellows up the fire to blow.1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad II. xviii. 200 From twenty bellows came Their breath into the furnaces.a800 Epinal & Erf. Gl. in H. Sweet Oldest Eng. Texts 64 Follis, blestbælg, Corpus Gl. blæsbælg. a1000 in Wülcker Voc. 241 Folliginis, belgum; follis, blædbylgum. a1000 in Wülcker Voc. 272 Follis, blæstbelg. a1100 in Wülcker Voc. 336 Follis, bylig. a1100 in Wülcker Voc. 517 Follibus, bylgum. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 153 Te deouel..mutleð his beali [?c1225 Cleo. bali; a1250 Nero beli] bleas. a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 128 No fur in his smiððe. ne belies [?c1225 Cleo. balies; c1230 Corpus bealies]. a1300 W. de Biblesworth in Wright Voc. 171 Le foufou, the bely. c1300 St. Brandan 467 Tho hurden hi of bulies gret blowinge there. c1400 Leg. Rood (1871) 85 Scho blew þe belise ferly fast. a1440 Isumbras 410 A smethymane..blewe thaire belyes bloo. 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng ix. f. 9v The whele gothe by drifte of water to blowe the bales. a1600 Purgatory in Ever-Green (1761) II. 246 Thocht thay..blaw Ay quhill thair Bellyis ryve. < as lemmas |
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