Definition of "sumpitan" [sum•pi•tan]

• A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, used by indigenous peoples of Borneo and adjacent islands. (noun)

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• "The sumpitan is a piece of hard wood, from six to eight feet in length and in circumference slightly larger than the handle of a broom."
• "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."
• "On leaving the house we noticed several blow-pipes, a hollow tube eight feet long called by the Poonans "sumpitan," the chief weapon of this tribe, and in the manufacture of which they greatly excel."