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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Blow-point

A game similar to our pea-puffing, only instead of peas small wooden skewers or bits of pointed wood were puffed through the tube. The game is alluded to by Florio, Strutt, and several other authors.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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