subs. (pugilists’).—1. A blow in the pit of the stomach; a winder; that which takes the breath away.
1856. Novels and Tales (from Household Words), Tauchn. ed., vi, 187. A sigh of the kind which is called by the lower classes a BELLOWSER.
2. (old).—A sentence of transportation for life. Hence BELLOWSED = transported; lagged.
