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Definition of Blow tube
1. Noun. A tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat.
2. Noun. A tube through which darts can be shot by blowing.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blow Tube
Literary usage of Blow tube
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anthropology: An Introduction to the Study of Man and Civilization by Edward Burnett Tylor (1904)
"... Sword, 150 — Carpenter's Tools, 151 — Missiles, Javelin, 152 — Sling,
Spear-thrower, 152 — Bow and Arrow, 153 — Blow-tube, Gun, 154 — Mechanical Power, ..."
2. The Art of Attack: Being a Study in the Development of Weapons and by Henry Swainson Cowper (1906)
"In the blow tube we have, however, a very simple adoption of the power of elasticity.
Into a long straight tube is inserted a small light dart, ..."
3. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1876)
"For scenting a room, a short piece of caoutchouc tubing is substituted at a for
the long blow-tube e, and the apparatus is blown with the mouth. ..."
4. The Origins of Invention: A Study of Industry Among Primitive Peoples by Otis Tufton Mason (1895)
"... THE ORIGINS OF INVENTION. or blow-tube, an instrument which they use very
dexterously and which they have inherited from their earliest ancestors.1 Fish ..."
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