英语词汇“sumpitan”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

sumpitan

释义

sumpitan|ˈsʌmpɪtən|
Forms: 7 sempitan, zampatan, 9 sumputan, sumpitan.
[a. Malay sumpītan, f. sumpit (see prec.); in Du. soempitan.
The possibility of connexion between the Malay sumpītan and Arabic sabaṭāna (see cebratane, sarbacane) has been suggested.]
A blow-gun made by the Malays from a hollowed cane, from which poisoned arrows are shot.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 199 They [of Celebes] all vse long Canes (they call them Sempitans)..out of which they can blow a little pricking-piercing quill.a1680Butler Charac., Glutton (1908) 192 His Entrails are like the Sarcophagus, that devours dead Bodies in a small Space, or the Indian Zampatan, that consumes Flesh in a Moment.1837Newbold in Phil. Trans. CXXVII. 427 The slender arrows propelled from the Súmpitan, or blow-pipe.1844J. Tomlin Miss. Jrnls. 84 A sumputan, or blow-pipe, and a quiver of arrows.1882H. De Windt Equator 88 A hollow tube eight feet long called by the Poonans ‘sumpitan’, the chief weapon of this tribe.

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