bellowsed

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English

Verb

bellowsed

  1. simple past and past participle of bellows

Adjective

bellowsed (not comparable)

  1. Furnished with a bellows (of a particular type).
    a long-bellowsed camera
  2. (of a horse) Short of breath.
    • 1944, Benjamin A. Botkin (ed.), “The Grist Mill” in A Treasury of American Folklore, New York: Crown Publishers, p. 411,[2]
      He burst into the sitting-room, covered with meal and panting like a bellowsed horse, frightening my grandmother almost into hysterics.
  3. (obsolete, slang) Deported to a penal colony, transported.[1] [2]

References

  1. ^ Albert Barrère and Charles G. Leland (editors), A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, London: Ballantyne, 1889, p. 104.[1]
  2. ^ Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, New York: Paragon, 1992, p. 24.
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