(n.) 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.
(n.) A blowgun; a blowtube.
Example Sentences:
(1) An indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Amazon has won a reprieve after building up an arsenal of spears, blowpipes, machetes and guns to fend off an expected intrusion by the army and a state-run oil company.
(2) The people still hunt and fish for their food in the way they always have, but sometimes use guns instead of blowpipes and have a generator that comes on at 8pm and then house music starts pumping at one end of the village.
(3) The animals were darted using a blowpipe or a CO2 gun.
(4) The city authorities carried out their own spay-and-neuter plan in one township late last year, sending municipal workers out with blowpipes loaded with anaesthetic.
(5) Before the expected confrontation,the shaman, Patricio Jipa said people were making blowpipes and spears, trying to borrow guns and preparing to use sticks stones and any other weapons they could lay their hands on.
(6) We used individual cage traps, a group trap, a blowpipe and an air-pressure rifle.
(7) The Tagaeri and the Taromenane – who have fought off illegal loggers and Catholic missionaries with spears and blowpipes to maintain their isolated, nomadic existence – are now at risk from the construction of roads and drilling wells as petroleum firms carve up the Yasuni national park.
(8) Photograph: Aung Naing Soe ‘We just want killing’ In her spacious office in the downtown YCDC building, Dr Hla May Oo, assistant head of the veterinary and slaughterhouse department, pulls a black plastic blowpipe out of a cardboard box and puffs into the tube.
(9) The Kichwa indigenous group have moved from spears and blowpipes to guns and eco-tourism within three generations.
(10) The Kichwa tribe on Sani Isla, who were using blowpipes two generations ago, said they are ready to fight to the death to protect their territory, which covers 70,000 hectares of pristine rainforest.
Jewelry
Definition:
(n.) The art or trade of a jeweler.
(n.) Jewels, collectively; as, a bride's jewelry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cause-specific mortality patterns among Rhode Island jewelry manufacturing workers, as identified on death certificates from 1968 to 1978, were examined using the proportionate mortality ratio (PMR) method.
(2) Lawyers acting for Smulls, 56, who was sentenced to death for the 1991 murder of a jewelry store owner Stephen Honickman, have lodged a court motion protesting that the secrecy surrounding the source of the execution drugs is a violation of the prisoner's first amendment rights as well as his right to proper legal representation.
(3) Hillary Clinton accepted $58,000 in jewelry from the government of Brunei.” – 22 June, New York City Clinton gave the necklace from the queen of Brunei to the US government, in accordance with US law.
(4) The patient had a history of developing a rash and swelling whenever she used jewelry containing silver.
(5) The problems of diagnosis and expertise in occupational diseases in women with allergy to nickel present in metal jewelry and working in contact with metals in occupation are discussed.
(6) His wife, Kim Kardashian, who has made no public appearances since a robbery in Paris in October, where she was tied up and robbed of millions of dollars’ worth of jewelry, was not with him for his arrival at Trump Tower.
(7) The results provide support for the substitution of nickel in imitation jewelry with metals such as palladium or bronze.
(8) Rehabilitation by avoidance of nickel-containing costume jewelry, wrist-watches and clothing buckles, and by change of occupation, is possible and necessary.
(9) Youngevity says that it sells hundreds of products such as nutritional supplements, jewelry and coffee.
(10) Overnight, we had a break-in, so whatever was upstairs they came and took: TVs jewelry, everything,” she said.
(11) For 35 years, up until three weeks prior to pneumonectomy, the patient made asbestos soldering forms at a costume jewelry production facility.
(12) We present two cases that illustrate some of the real and potential hazards of these small jewelry pieces.
(13) Compared with the general signs of identity, like clothing, jewelry and accessories, scars etc., the marks of ears and observations of forensic odonto-stomatology provide good chances for identification.
(14) The resolution specifies some luxury items that North Korea's elite will not be allowed to import, such as yachts, racing cars, luxury automobiles and certain types of jewelry.
(15) In extreme cases it may make it embarrassing for the person concerned to wear metallic jewelry.
(16) Fertility and possession of jewelry represent femininity in the Makrani culture.
(17) Melania Trump, a Slovenian-born watch and jewelry designer and former model, whose father was a member of the communist party , stood in front of thousands as she proclaimed her love for her family and the nation that adopted her.
(18) There was a strong correlation of nickel sensitivity with a history of pierced ears, earlobe rash, and jewelry rash.
(19) The history of contact allergy to jewelry provided an early clue, and the microscopic features confirmed the clinical impression of allergic stomatitis.
(20) Both groups disliked excessive jewelry, prominent ruffles or ribbons, long fingernails, blue jeans, and sandals.