bellowsed

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. Short of breath. (of a horse)
    • 1944, “The Grist Mill”, in Benjamin A. Botkin, editor, A Treasury of American Folklore‎, New York: Crown Publishers, page 411:
      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.
  2. Jay Robert Nash, Dictionary of Crime, New York: Paragon, 1992, p. 24.
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