Definition of Blowpipes

1. Noun. (plural of blowpipe) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Blowpipes

1. blowpipe [n] - See also: blowpipe

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blowpipes

blown save
blown saves
blown the whistle
blown up
blown up(p)
blownup
blowoff
blowoffs
blowout
blowout coil
blowout coils
blowout pipette
blowout preventer
blowouts
blowpipe
blowpipes (current term)
blowpoint
blows
blows away
blows off steam
blows one's load
blows the whistle
blows up
blowsabella
blowsabellas
blowse
blowsed
blowses
blowsier
blowsiest

Literary usage of Blowpipes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden (1906)
"Л'р/л—These rubbings are taken from blowpipes in the Skeat Collection at Cambridge, which are there ..."

2. Chemistry of Common Things by Raymond Bedell Brownlee, Robert Warren Fuller, William J. Hancock, Jesse Elon Whitsit (1914)
"CHAPTER XXXIII BLAST LAMPS AND blowpipes 372. Blast Lamps. — One of the most familiar facts regarding combustion is that the greater the draft, ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Blowpipe, in Chemical and Mineral by John Joseph Griffin (1827)
"OF COMPOUND blowpipes. 41. Having given a description of the best simple blowpipes, we shall now do the same for a few of the multifarious machines which ..."

4. Oxy-acetylene Welding Practice: A Practical Presentation of the Modern by Robert Joseph Kehl, American Technical Society (1917)
"There are two types of oxy-acetylene welding blowpipes, namely, the low-pressure, or injector type and the equal-pressure type ..."

5. Modern Methods of Welding as Applied to Workshop Practice, Describing by James Henry Davies (1922)
"CHAPTER XI blowpipes blowpipes intended for the autogenous welding of metals, which employ oxygen and acetylene as the gases, are manufactured instruments, ..."

6. Mechanical Movements, Powers, Devices and Appliances Used in Constructive by Gardner Dexter Hiscox (1899)
"WINDMILLS, BELLOWS, BLOWERS, AIR COMPRESSORS, COMPRESSED AIR TOOLS, MOTORS, AIR WATER LIFTS, blowpipes, ETC. 612. ANEROID BAROMETER. ..."

7. A Handbook of Chemical Manipulation by C[harles] Greville Williams (1857)
"Table blowpipes.—Any laboratory where experiments are carried on with even moderate activity, must possess one of these pieces of apparatus. ..."

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