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What is a blowpipe?

What is a blowpipe? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (chemistry) a narrow tube through which a jet of air is directed onto a flame; used in the analysis of minerals etc and in jewelry manufacture
  2. a weapon through which darts may be shot by blowing; a blowgun
  3. (glassblowing) a long narrow pipe, rotated in the hands, upon which glassware is blown
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Izzie preferred poison darts, shot through a blowpipe which hung constantly around her neck like a treasured piece of jewellery.
Lashed to the end of the blowpipe is a sharp bayonet with which they administer the coup de grace once the pig is cornered.
Then, inching the window open a tiny fraction, the rogue captain slipped the end of the blowpipe into the room.
Though everything begins on the blowpipe, a million things can happen before a piece reaches the showroom.
It was here that he invented the oxy-hydrogen blowpipe, a system for burning a jet of oxygen and hydrogen to produce an intensely hot flame.
Licking his lips in anticipation, Epsilon drew a tiny blowpipe from his belt and loaded it with a silvery needle.

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