Definitions
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- n. A child's game of blowing small fragments of wood through a tube.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A child's game.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A game supposed to have consisted in blowing small pins or arrows through a tube at certain numbers.
Etymologies
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blow + point?
Examples
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I fear the reverse is true in leapfrog, shove-ha'penny, drawgloves and blowpoint (a relative of darts).
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