blowpipe

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As monsoon rains hammered down on the village of Mushuk Llacta, Peregrina Cenepo, 79, showed off the blowpipe she said her late husband used for hunting.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2022

A study published today in Integrative Organismal Biology comes down on the side of the blowpipe.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 22, 2022

Molten glass slowly ballooning from the tip of a blowpipe.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2019

For the sake of his triple-decker life, Sherry went everywhere the globe-trotting novelist had been, exposing himself to every blowpipe and mosquito-loud interior.

From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2016

Coaxing a fresh blaze with a blowpipe, he found tongs and with them held a portion of the collar carefully to the blast, his corded, brown old back gleaming with the heat.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw