blowgun
a pipe or tube through which darts or other missiles are blown by the breath.
Origin of blowgun
1- Also called blowtube.
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How to use blowgun in a sentence
Sumpit, sum′pit, n. the poisoned arrow thrown from the Sum′pitan, or Malay blow-gun.
In the Muskogian area the blow-gun is found, and its use extended also to some of the Iroquoian tribes (Cherokee, &c.).
The principal hunting weapon used by these Indians is the blow-gun or bodoqueda, known to them as the obidique.
The Putumayo, The Devil's Paradise | Walter HardenburgThey go by in a minute, and I take off the last one with my blow-gun.
The Inca Emerald | Samuel ScovilleHis words were punctuated by the deadly pop of Pinto's blow-gun.
The Inca Emerald | Samuel Scoville
British Dictionary definitions for blowgun
/ (ˈbləʊˌɡʌn) /
the US word for blowpipe (def. 1)
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