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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bellow
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cry/howl/bellow etc of rage
▪ She remembered his cries of rage as he was taken away.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Be quiet!" the teacher bellowed.
▪ "He's guilty and I'll prove it!" Sharpton bellowed.
▪ The officer in charge was bellowing instructions through a loudspeaker.
▪ Then the referee started to blow his whistle and bellow at me.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the farmer poured the fluid into the wounds they would bellow loudly and kick out at him.
▪ Back in the other Washington, Republicans bellowed for his scalp.
▪ Cantor bellowed into the speaker phone.
▪ Little did I think that the one-time pretty young copy typist would end up bellowing in my ear.
▪ She was half dead, Manshin Anjima bellowed.
▪ Sometimes they can be heard bellowing far away on the shoreline in very great numbers.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He touched the toad and it inflated jerkily, its throat moving in and out like bellows.
▪ He worked the bellows furiously, with disastrous results.
▪ In 1884 he achieved a higher temperature using another homemade furnace and bellows.
▪ Instead of their polished manner and measured tones, he sweats under the studio lights and delivers his lines in a bellow.
▪ The muffled bellows were the only sounds he could make as his face was pushed closer and closer to the glowing rings.
▪ With an angry bellow, the daemon rose to confront him.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bellow

Bellow \Bel"low\, v. t. To emit with a loud voice; to shout; -- used with out. ``Would bellow out a laugh.''
--Dryden.

Bellow

Bellow \Bel"low\, n. A loud resounding outcry or noise, as of an enraged bull; a roar.

Bellow

Bellow \Bel"low\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bellowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bellowing.] [OE. belwen, belowen, AS. bylgean, fr. bellan; akin to G. bellen, and perh. to L. flere to weep, OSlav. bleja to bleat, Lith. balsas voice. Cf. Bell, n. & v., Bawl, Bull.]

  1. To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull.

  2. To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor.
    --Dryden.

  3. To roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound.

    The bellowing voice of boiling seas.
    --Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bellow

apparently from Old English bylgan "to bellow," from PIE root *bhel- (4) "to sound, roar." Originally of animals, especially cows and bulls; used of human beings since c.1600. Related: Bellowed; bellowing. As a noun from 1779.

Wiktionary
bellow

n. the deep roar of a large animal, or any similar loud noise vb. 1 To make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull. 2 To shout in a deep voice.

WordNet
bellow
  1. n. a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway" [syn: bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl]

  2. United States novelist (born in Canada in 1915) [syn: Saul Bellow]

bellow
  1. v. shout loudly and without restraint [syn: bawl]

  2. make a loud noise, as of animal; "The bull bellowed" [syn: roar]

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Bellow

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Bellow (album)

Bellow is the second album by folk duo Spiers and Boden.

Usage examples of "bellow".

But it called his name again, in an amplified bellow, and simultaneously it dropped from the rooftop out of sight, as if it were hurrying toward him again.

A nude, ridiculous man with a blushing appendectomy scar appeared in the doorway suddenly and bellowed.

Ron bellowed, even as he jumped up and down, applauding with his hands over his head.

When the barque held on her course, another hail bellowed from the brig, following which her bow fell off again to larboard.

Even as the bartender lurns away lo bellow rudely at two droid-accompanied humans slopped by ihe deleclor, I sip slowly, savoring the water.

Almost instantly the silence of the forest was broken by the thunderous bellow of a basto, and there was a great crashing in the undergrowth.

Again the basto bellowed, and a quick backward glance revealed the mighty creature in the trail only a few paces in my rear.

The bellowing of the basto mingled with the roars and growls of the tharban in a hideous diapason of bestial rage that seemed to rock the forest.

While that was happening to me, and making me scream, the head of the creature inside me was butting its way through the enclosing bones down there, and that made me bellow between my screams.

Once a man even reached the Chesaux de Frise, he swept at the sabre blades with a musket, bellowing defiance, and then he was hit by an unseen French infantryman and he fell, twisting like a rag doll, down the slope and the French jeered him and poured fire down.

From the dark interior a terrific bellowing erupted, followed by the form of a slight man dressed in ragged homespun who fairly flew through the air to land in a hump in the road.

There are depths in music which the melodeon, even when it is called a cabinet organ, with a colored boy at the bellows, cannot sound.

Harriet inclined her head slightly, looking, she hoped, remote, but it was lost on Friso, who went to the stairs to bellow at Sieske to hurry herself up and then started talking to Mevrouw Van Minn en in Fries, with a casual apology over one shoulder for doing so.

On the misapplication of the procedures and the role of OIPR, see Bellows Report, pp.

Ged who had never been down from the heights of the mountain, the Port of Gont was an awesome and marvellous place, the great houses and towers of cut stone and waterfront of piers and docks and basins and moorages, the seaport where half a hundred boats and galleys rocked at quayside or lay hauled up and overturned for repairs or stood out at anchor in the roadstead with furled sails and closed oarports, the sailors shouting in strange dialects and the longshoremen running heavyladen amongst barrels and boxes and coils of rope and stacks of oars, the bearded merchants in furred robes conversing quietly as they picked their way along the slimy stones above the water, the fishermen unloading their catch, coopers pounding and shipmakers hammering and clamsellers singing and shipmasters bellowing, and beyond all the silent, shining bay.