Crossword-Solution: BLOWGUN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Blowgun | n. | A tube, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “BLOWGUN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DART weapon | 1 answer |
| Dart shooter that might be made from a reed | 1 answer |
| Pygmy weapon | 1 answer |
| Small weapon using darts | 1 answer |
| Small-game weapon sometimes crafted from river cane | 1 answer |
| Tube for quickening dart | 1 answer |
| blowpipe | 2 answers |
| Dart shooter | 3 answers |
| Primitive weapon | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with BLOWGUN (5)
Their ammunition is long since spent, their muskets, spoilt by the perpetual vapor-bath of the steaming woods, are left behind as useless in a cave by some cataract of the Orinoco: but their swords are bright and terrible as ever; and they carry bows of a strength which no Indian arm can bend, and arrows pointed with the remnants of their armor; many of them, too, are armed with the pocuna or blowgun of the Indians--more deadly, because more silent, than the firearms which they have left behind them.
What do you say?' “I didn't say nuthin'; but that fool dream was rattlin' round in Jonadab's skull like a bean in a blowgun, and he sees a chance for a shot.
The ball of samauma should fit to a nicety the bore of the blowgun; when it does so, the arrow can be propelled with such force by the breath that it makes a noise almost as loud as a pop-gun on flying from the muzzle.
The natural projectile weapon of the Negrito is the bow and arrow; that of the Malayan seems to be the blowgun -- at present, however, largely replaced by the spear, though in some southern islands, especially in Paragua, it has held its own.
There was not a native to be seen now, for they were hiding behind the trees of the jungle, but every now and then a blowgun barb would whizz out of the forest.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (2003–2014).