a pair of bellows

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a pair of bellows - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Bellows \Bel"lows\, n. sing. & pl. [OE. bely, below, belly,
     bellows, AS. b[ae]lg, b[ae]lig, bag, bellows, belly. Bellows
     is prop. a pl. and the orig. sense is bag. See Belly.]
     An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate
     expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top,
     draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for
     various purposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or
     filling the pipes of an organ with wind.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Bellows camera, in photography, a form of camera, which can
        be drawn out like an accordion or bellows.
  
     Hydrostatic bellows. See Hydrostatic.
  
     A pair of bellows, the ordinary household instrument for
        blowing fires, consisting of two nearly heart-shaped
        boards with handles, connected by leather, and having a
        valve and tube.
        [1913 Webster]