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US
/ˈbɫoʊˌpaɪp/
]
[ UK /blˈəʊpaɪp/ ]
[ UK /blˈəʊpaɪp/ ]
NOUN
- a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat
- a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing
How To Use blowpipe In A Sentence
- Just like humans, they go hunting with their blowpipes and they erect snares and traps in the jungle.
- The new laws will also forbid drunks from loitering around liquor stores, carrying baseball bats and fooling around with crossbows, slingshots, blowpipes and airguns.
- Yes, Puff and Dart, I think it was an early version of darts in which they blew the dart, like a blowpipe, at the target, which I think wasn't like a dartboard of today but just more like an archery target with lots of concentric things.
- They did their soldering over a charcoal fire using a blowpipe to intensify the production of heat.
- Kallolo, who had started as he intended at daybreak, returned in the evening with the materials for his blowpipe, and the ingredients for manufacturing the woorali poison. The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco
- In their preparation three articles are essential; first a three-square hard-steel file or preferably a glass-worker's knife of hard Thuringian steel for cutting glass tubes etc.; next a blowpipe flame, for although much can be done with the ordinary Bunsen burner, a blowpipe flame makes for rapid work; and lastly a bat's-wing burner. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
- Deer trail fresh, maybe catch deer along blowpipe.
- I presumed this was a bird, but the asli could have had their blowpipes targeted on my butt all the way.
- Botha to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over the "blowpipe" affair ", three SA Embassy staff are ordered to leave ANC Daily News Briefing
- Stilbite is characterized by its form, difficult gelatinizing, and intumescence before the blowpipe; from natrolite as mentioned under that species. Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882