Is "Bellows" a Singluar or a Plural name?

[marcookie]

From the Merriam-Webster:

bellows

noun

plural in form but singular or plural in construction

[Bob Salomon]

Belli was a lawyer.

[Mark Sawyer]

"The bellows is..." or "the bellows are..."?

Off the top of my head, I'd say "the bellows are..."

From the Merriam-Webster:

plural in form but singular or plural in construction

Merriam-Webster is about as conclusive as the Mueller Report...

[Dan Fromm]

Bellow is a verb.

[Jac@stafford.net]

Bellow is a verb.

Bellows is a noun which works for a single object and a non-possesive collection of the same.

[Tin Can]

He bellows about bellows.

[Drew Wiley]

You have to go back to the root word or etymology. The terms bellows is derived from "hollerin n' bellerin", a suite of loud noises associated with finding fogging on developed glass plates, then tracing these to pinholes or tears in the camera fabric. But this fact was forgotten once Daguerretypists were driven so insane from mercury fumes that they just hollered and bellered continuously for no apparent reason, just like we still do on this forum for no apparent reason. Thus there needs to be no rational reason for "bellows" to be either singular or plural. You just stretch it and it changes anyway. Why is "moose" both singular and plural, instead of becoming "meese", or "deer" always deer, instead of becoming "dice" like "mice". Should purchasing more than one Deardorff camera at a time be
terms a "Dicedorff" purchase. If you want consistency, pick some other language besides English.

[Leszek Vogt]

OK, I'll get little more wild than Randy. A"bellow" (singular) would be one fold, right ? Where does that get you, may have to use 38mm on 8x10 rig ?
So instead we have the plural. 'Nuff of this linguistic jibberish.

Les

[Vaughn]

...then tracing these to pinholes or tears in the camera fabric. ...

Crying tears in my bellows over you...

(sounds like a Patsy Cline song...)

[pepeguitarra]

Bellows is singular and Bellows is plural. Just like FISH is singular and FISH is plural (except for Lucca Brassi).