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blow·gun

 (blō′gŭn′)
n.
A long narrow pipe through which darts or pellets may be blown. Also called blowpipe.
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blowgun

(ˈbləʊˌɡʌn)
n
(Arms & Armour (excluding Firearms)) the US word for blowpipe1
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blow•gun

(ˈbloʊˌgʌn)

n.
a pipe or tube through which darts or other missiles are blown by the breath.
[1800–10, Amer.]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.blowgun - a tube through which darts can be shot by blowingblowgun - a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing
tube, tubing - conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
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Translations
fúvócsőlégfúvóka

blowgun

[ˈbləʊgʌn] N (US) → cerbatana f
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The Matis, known as the 'cat people' because of the 'whiskers' they attach to their faces, are notoriously violent but instead of clubs use bows and arrows or long blowguns with poisoned-tipped darts to kill their enemies.
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Robert Fox, chief anthropologist, bows and arrows, spears with deadly poisonous tips, shorter one for blowguns; the wooden tops were still there, so were the delicate necklaces of beads and shells.
They carved dugout canoes, wove hammocks and nets from plant fibers, and hunted with bows and arrows and pucunas (blowguns).
Traditionally, Choco people hunted with wooden blowguns. Blowgun darts were dipped in a very strong poison that comes from this frog.
Developed by BCAS in conjunction with safety practitioners, the course addresses the needs of those who use handheld air tools, including blowguns. As well as identifying the employer's and the employee's responsibilities, the course explores the hazards arising from the use of air tools and the correct use of personal protective equipment.
Techniques for tying knots as well as building blowguns, fish spears, bird bolas, crossbows and boomerangs are included.
Frogs, except Pine Barrens tree frogs, gopher frogs and Florida bog frogs, may be taken throughout the year by gigs, clubs, blowguns, hook and line or manually; or by shooting with a .22 caliber or smaller firearms during daylight hours.
Bandstand, Armatrading and The trip, for a planned television documentary, follows the band as they meet and play with the tribe whose first contact with Western culture was only 50 years ago and who hunt with spears and blowguns to this day.
Hunting with blowguns, homemade crossbows and other improvised arms is covered, as is practical taxidermy for the trophies collected.
These took the form of long tubes filled with burning solids, such as coal or sulfur, and were used in the same way as blowguns. The flamethrower was refined during the intervening centuries.
Like the poison-tipped darts of Aguaruna blowguns, these darts can be shot into someone else in a way that is unfelt but eventually brings death.