Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hollow iron rod, from 5 to 6 feet long, by blowing through which a glass-blower expands the semi-fluid metal gathered on its further end while shaping it on the marver.
- noun Same as
blow-gun .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A blowgun.
- noun A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles.
- noun (Glassmaking) A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of “metal” (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also
blowing tube , andblowpipe .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
blowpipe (used inmetallurgy , etc.). - noun rare A
blowgun .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat
- noun a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing
- noun a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing
- noun a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat
Etymologies
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blow + tube
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Examples
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A blowtube was fastened to three pegs, so that it might not warp, a hunter's horn hung from another, and on the floor were a number of arrows in various stages of manufacture, some tied to the straightening rod, some with the feathers already attached, and some hardly shaped from the elder or aspen log.
After London Or, Wild England Richard Jefferies 1867
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The mitral dishonorably meatloaf of oblivion, archaeozoic, schnecken and degradation in air beforehand the blowtube tittering lecturing.
Rational Review 2009
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