n. A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, used by indigenous peoples of Borneo and adjacent islands.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, -- used by the savages of Borneo and adjacent islands.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The blow-gun of the Malays and the Dyaks of Borneo.
Word Usage
"The sumpitan is a kind of blow-gun, like the "bean-blower" formerly used by American boys, which was a tin pipe, or the "pea-shooter," an English plaything."