What's the difference between blowgun and blowtube?
Blowgun
Definition:
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The use of lightweight darts and a blowgun was found to be useful as a supplement to longer range dart projector systems since many animals could be approached at short range.
(2) A radiograph showing a pin head down in the trachea or bronchus, coughing (especially with hemoptysis) in excess of that expected from just an aspirated pin, and a child hesitant to divulge the full history suggest blowgun dart aspiration.
(3) Animals were anesthetized by blowgun under similar circumstances that allow for determination of basal cortisol concentrations.
(4) In Ecuador, the Colorado Indians used N. chiguila, while the Coaiquer Indians still derive a poison from the latex of N. naga and the Cayapá Indians occasionally make use of a blowgun poison, hambi, which probably also comes from a Naucleopsis species.
(5) We report on two young patients with unusual airway foreign bodies: blowgun darts.
Blowtube
Definition:
(n.) A blowgun.
(n.) A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles.
(n.) 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.