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blowtube

WordNet
  1. (n) blowtube
    a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing
  2. (n) blowtube
    a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Blowtube
    A blowgun.
  2. Blowtube
    (Glassmaking) A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workman gathers a quantity of “metal” (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe.
  3. Blowtube
    A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) blowtube
    A hollow iron rod, from 5 to 6 feet long, by blowing through which a glass-blower expands the semi-fluid metal gathered on its further end while shaping it on the marver.
  2. (n) blowtube
    Same as blow-gun.