The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sumpitan \Sum"pi*tan\, n. A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, -- used by the savages of Borneo and adjacent islands.
Wiktionary
n. A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, used by indigenous peoples of Borneo and adjacent islands.
Usage examples of "sumpitan".
Their weapon is the sumpitan, a blow-gun, from which poisoned arrows are expelled.
A loin cloth of soft leather was tied around his waist so as to serve the purpose of a belt, and through it were stuck, on the right and left sides respectively, a long double-edged knife, and a sumpitan, or blow gun, with its pouch of poisoned darts.
The Dyak uses a sumpitan, or blow-tube, which is about seven feet long, and having a bore of about half an inch.
A shower of poisoned darts blown from half a hundred sumpitans fell about them, and then Muda Saffir called to his warriors to cease using their deadly blow-pipes lest they kill the girl.