'blowing tube' definitions:
Definition of 'blowing tube'
From: GCIDE
- Blowtube \Blow"tube`\, n.
- 1. A blowgun. --Tylor. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A similar instrument, commonly of tin, used by boys for discharging paper wads and other light missiles. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Glassmaking) 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. [1913 Webster]