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Definition of Blowtube
1. Noun. A tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat.
2. Noun. A tube through which darts can be shot by blowing.
Definition of Blowtube
1. n. A blowgun.
Definition of Blowtube
1. Noun. A blowpipe (used in metallurgy, etc.). ¹
2. Noun. (rare) A blowgun. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blowtube
1. a blowgun [n -S] - See also: blowgun
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blowtube
Literary usage of Blowtube
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pheasant by Hugh Alexander Macpherson (1904)
"Professor Giglioli tells me that poachers in the north of Italy sometimes kill
roosting pheasants with a blowtube. I have no experience of such weapons, ..."
2. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 2/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"Bellows were not used, but the blowtube existed. Water wheels were unknown, and
in the matter of using nature's forces for work northern America was ..."
3. Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie by Intern. Gesellschaft für Ethnographie, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden (1892)
"... blowtube, blowpipe. Besides, what seems to me of greater importance, it is
used in Malay manuscripts. I shall quote one only, which has been published ..."
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