Translation for "blow-pipe" to spanish
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noun
A ewer and basin stood at one end of a carpenter's bench, and a soap-dish: at the other a blow-pipe, a tray of sand, pliers, a little furnace.
En un extremo de una mesa de carpintero, había una palangana y una jabonera; en el otro, un soplete, una bandeja con arena, tenacillas, y un hornillo.
He took from his pocket a little red leather box, and when he opened it the boys saw that it contained curious little instruments: tiny sharp knife blades, hooks, curved needles, a saw, a blow-pipe, and scissors.
Se sacó del bolsillo una cajita de cuero rojo; al abrirla, los chicos vieron que contenía unos instrumentos pequeños y peculiares: cuchillas de reducidas dimensiones, garfios, agujas de punta curva, una sierra, un soplete y tijeras—.
"He had lost them all, sir, except the one which was in his blow-pipe at the time." "Ah, of course," said Holmes.
—Los había perdido todos señor, menos el que tenía en la cerbatana. —¡Naturalmente! No había caído en ello —dijo Holmes.
The Indians all fired at once, but they are as wretched marksmen with a gun as they are wonderful with the blow-pipe or the bow, and the bear was not even wounded.
Todos los indios dispararon a la vez, pero son tan malos tiradores con arma de fuego como maravillosos con el arco o la cerbatana; el oso ni siquiera fue herido.
When we came into Seneca territory I was greatly astonished with the precision with which the young men of this nation would kill little red squirrels or big black squirrels, such as were not yet a-bed for the winter, with their long blow-pipes, of cane reed.
Cuando entramos en el territorio de los senecas, me quedé asombrado de la precisión con que los jóvenes de esta nación mataban pequeñas ardillas rojas o grandes ardillas negras, como las que todavía no se habían recogido para pasar el invierno, con sus largas cerbatanas hechas de caña.
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