blowgun
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8.3
- noun
- /ˈbloʊˌɡʌn/
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- So the Schultes's classroom was decorated with blowguns from South America and all sorts of artifacts from his travels.
- blowgun with darts
Examples
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My father has this deadly Amazon Indian blowgun that shoots poison darts.
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Blowguns and poison arrows, no thanks.
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"Your blowgun, for example, makes it easy to capture the fiercest animal.
Fiction book (2001) -
You, gather up the blowguns.
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They did not need to shoot pellets, but they pointed their blowguns straight out and blew air.
Fiction book (1992) -
In addition to basket making, rivercane was also used for making blowguns, arrow shafts, fish traps, and as food.
Academic text (2011) -
They hunted with blowguns, drank hallucinogenic brews, made love in the jungle, and sometimes shrank enemy heads.
Blog text (18) -
For their ranged weapons, the Maya used blowguns, javelins, slings and a weapon imported from the Mexican Highlands, the Ashlatel or spear thrower.
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The boy could not track animals, make poison darts, shoot a blowgun, or even start a fire with sticks.
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With only a crude blowgun, they bring down monkeys from the forest canopy.
Synonyms
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7.6
A long tube that you blow through to shoot small darts
A tube like a straw that sends small darts when someone blows into it
A long thin tube people blow through to shoot small darts
A simple tube toy you blow into to shoot small peas
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Morphology
Etymology
The word blowgun is simply blow + gun, where blow means 'to breathe out' and gun means 'a weapon that shoots'. So a blowgun is a 'gun' you use by blowing into a tube to send small darts.