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

One, the blowpipe hypothesis, maintains that bony parts of the fish’s mouth clap together into a tube shape through which the water spurts out like peas through a straw.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 22, 2022

Molten glass slowly ballooning from the tip of a blowpipe.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2019

“Andy Warhol used urine on copper in his ‘Oxidation’ paintings, while in 1929 Paul Klee used a blowpipe technique, similar to that used in ancient cave paintings.”

From Architectural Digest • Jun. 11, 2015

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