subs. phr. (colloquial).—1.  One exciting to strife.

1

  c. 1849.  SOUTHEY, Common-place Book, ii. 191. The trumpeters and drummers and BELLOWS-BLOWERS of rebellion were Conformable Episcopalians.

2

  2.  (colloquial).—An unskilled assistant; a mere hodman.

3

  1865.  Times, 2 Feb. The prelates play the new organ; the lay members are the mere BELLOWS-BLOWERS.

4