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# blowgun

«blowgun» in Mova's school dictionary: **A long, thin tube used as a weapon or for hunting: a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a blowgun, blowguns)

### meaning for a pupil

A long, thin tube used as a weapon or for hunting: a person blows hard into one end to shoot a small dart out of the other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blowgun/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In history and geography lessons it is linked with hunting traditions of peoples in the Amazon rainforest and South-East Asia (such as Borneo). In stories it adds adventure and jungle danger. Safety: real blowguns are weapons, not toys.

### examples

- Hunters in the rainforest used a blowgun to catch birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blowgun/#x1)
- The blowgun was made from a long hollow cane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blowgun/#x2)
- He blew into the blowgun and the dart flew silently. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blowgun/#x3)
- The museum showed a blowgun from Borneo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blowgun/#x4)
- In the adventure story, an arrow from a blowgun stuck in the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blowgun/#x5)
- Some darts for a blowgun were dipped in poison. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blowgun/#x6)

### note

Countable: a blowgun, blowguns; also called «blowpipe» (UK) or «blow gun». It uses breath, not gunpowder, so it is not a gun in the usual sense.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «blowgun» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blowgun/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.