[a. Malay sumpit (sempit), blowpipe, properly = narrow.] = SUMPITAN; also erron. one of the darts blown from the sumpitan.
1831. Dalton, in J. H. Moor, Notices Ind. Archip. (1837), 50. Hunting parties … amuse themselves with shooting at the children in the trees with the sumpit.
1846. Mundy, Jrnl., in Narr. Events in Borneo (1848), II. 226. The inhabitants blew showers of sumpits into our boats.
