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  • noun Plural form of blowgun.

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Examples

  • Aquaman tries to get his finny friends to help free them all, but the aliens fight them off with giant blowguns they even work on giant whales...those must be really powerful blowguns!

    Showcase #30 - Feb. 1961 rob! 2009

  • Aquaman tries to get his finny friends to help free them all, but the aliens fight them off with giant blowguns they even work on giant whales...those must be really powerful blowguns!

    Archive 2009-02-01 rob! 2009

  • Holmes is at the absolute top of his game, Watson is at his most active, the boat chase is a wonder, and … well, who can resist pygmies and blowguns and unknown poisons?

    Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes: GG Authors 5 Sherlockian Questions - Bob Madison Charles Prepolec 2008

  • Holmes is at the absolute top of his game, Watson is at his most active, the boat chase is a wonder, and … well, who can resist pygmies and blowguns and unknown poisons?

    Archive 2008-09-01 Charles Prepolec 2008

  • In the deepest Amazon, Pygmy Hedgehog headhunters use blowguns and poison darts to stalk their prey.

    utube - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • In the rolling hills and jungle seven hours by speedboat up the muddy Mahakam River from the Indonesian mining town of Samarinda, Dayak tribesmen pan for it in the streams -- when they're not hunting birds and proboscis monkeys with blowguns.

    Fever In The Jungle 2008

  • A tribe of Indians had been harassing the employees of a multinational strip-mining company with blowguns, owing to the fact that the company was strip-mining the tribe's ancestral lands.

    One of Our Whales Is Missing 2005

  • A tribe of Indians had been harassing the employees of a multinational strip-mining company with blowguns, owing to the fact that the company was strip-mining the tribe's ancestral lands.

    One of Our Whales Is Missing 2005

  • If Siry and the others attacked with their silent blowguns, maybe all the guards were taken out at once, and my job was over.

    Pendragon: Book Eight: The Pilgrims of Rayne D. J. MacHale 2007

  • In an attempt to lure viewers who may be turned off by gore, the association's planners have dubbed this competition "nonlethal" -- meaning that hunters will shoot tranquilizer darts from bows, guns and blowguns, and veterinarians will be on site to attend to the deer after they are hit.

    Outdoors: Good Will Hunting? 2007

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