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Definition of blowpipe

blowpipe
Blowgun Blow"gun`, 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.
blowpipe
Blowtube Blow"tube`, n. 1. A blowgun. --Tylor. 2. A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles. 3. (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.
Blowpipe
Blowpipe Blow"pipe`, n. 1. A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object. Note: It is called a mouth blowpipe when used with the mouth; but for both chemical and industrial purposes, it is often worked by a bellows or other contrivance. The common mouth blowpipe is a tapering tube with a very small orifice at the end to be inserted in the flame. The oxyhydrogen blowpipe, invented by Dr. Hare in 1801, is an instrument in which oxygen and hydrogen, taken from separate reservoirs, in the proportions of two volumes of hydrogen to one of oxygen, are burned in a jet, under pressure. It gives a heat that will consume the diamond, fuse platinum, and dissipate in vapor, or in gaseous forms, most known substances. 2. A blowgun; a blowtube. Blowpipe analysis (Chem.), analysis by means of the blowpipe. Blowpipe reaction (Chem.), the characteristic behavior of a substance subjected to a test by means of the blowpipe.

Meaning of blowpipe from wikipedia

- The term blowpipe refers to one of several tools used to direct streams of gases into any of several working media. If a stream or jet of air is directed...
- Look up blowpipe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blowpipe may refer to: Blowpipe (missile), a man-portable surface-to-air missile Blowgun (also called...
- The Shorts Blowpipe is a man-portable (MANPADS) surface-to-air missile that was in use with the British Army and Royal Marines from 1975 to 1985. It also...
- involves inflating molten gl**** into a bubble (or parison) with the aid of a blowpipe (or blow tube). A person who blows gl**** is called a gl****blower, gl****mith...
- oxy-hydrogen blowpipe were laid down by Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Joseph Priestley around the last quarter of the eighteenth century. The oxy-hydrogen blowpipe itself...
- mounted. The missile is an updated version of the earlier Blowpipe of the 1970s. Blowpipe used a manual guidance system which proved hard to use effectively...
- to catch fish. Poison dart frogs have been used to poison the tips of blowpipe darts. A wide variety of animals are kept as pets, from invertebrates such...
- testing by the Royal Navy and Israeli Navy of the short range TV guided Blowpipe (missile) in the 1970s the IDAS system is the world's first missile which...
- A blowgun (also called a blowpipe or blow tube) is a simple ranged weapon consisting of a long narrow tube for shooting light projectiles such as darts...
- molten gl**** on the end of a blowpipe, and then roll the disc along one edge of the sheet, picking up the sheet on the blowpipe in the form of a cylinder...