Definition of Blowguns

1. Noun. (plural of blowgun) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Blowguns

1. blowgun [n] - See also: blowgun

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blowguns

blowdowns
blowdryer
blowdryers
blowe
blowed
blower
blowers
blowest
bloweth
blowfish
blowfishes
blowflies
blowfly
blowfly strike
blowgun
blowguns (current term)
blowhard
blowhards
blowholes
blowhorn
blowier
blowies
blowiest
blowin'
blowiness
blowinesses
blowing
blowing agent

Literary usage of Blowguns

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

1. Dangerous Weapons Control Law 1991 (1993)
"Articled blowguns 12580. "Blowgun," as used in this article, means a hollow tube designed and intended to be used as a tube through which a dart is ..."

2. Indian Tribes of Eastern Peru by William Curtis Farabee (1922)
"The men in the house spend their time manufacturing blowguns, poisoned darts, ... blowguns are used here as bows and arrows are used among the other tribes, ..."

3. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1922)
"The men in the house spend their time manufacturing blowguns, poisoned darts, ... blowguns are used here as bows and arrows are used among the other tribes, ..."

4. Fasciculi Malayenses: Anthropological and Zoological Results of an by Nelson Annandale, Herbert Christopher Robinson (1903)
"... in manufacture of blowguns. Mai Darat ; Telom, South Perak (p. 38). 5. Instrument for polishing bore of Blowgun. Same locality (p. 38). 4, 6. ..."

5. Memorials of a Southern Planter by Susan Dabney Smedes (1888)
"Its banks were clothed with thickets of cane which the men used for making their blowguns and arrows, and the women for making their baskets. ..."

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