Peashooter (toy)
The peashooter is a toy version of the blowgun or blowpipe. It is usually a tube that launches its projectiles via blowing. As the name suggests the normal ammunition is peas, though other seeds, fruits, improvised darts, or wadded up paper can also be used.
History
The pinturas de castas are a rare glimpse into the daily life of ordinary people in 18th century colonial Mexico. They reveal how different races and classes interacted, dressed, worked, and played. Some of these paintings show the toys that children used, including a depiction of a boy with a peashooter and visible projectile.Peashooting
Peashooting is the act of shooting dried peas out of a tube, a peashooter, by blowing through it. A similar effect can be achieved by using small bits of paper instead of peas. A sport has developed around pea shooting, in which peas are shot into a target, similar to those used for archery. The target may be made of a soft substance so that the peas will stick into it or at least make indentations that easily identify the location of the hit. The World Pea Shooting Championships are held annually in the village of Witcham, UK.Other usage
- The Boeing P-26 Peashooter, a fighter aircraft, was nicknamed the shooter of peas because it has no visible armament. It did, however, have a long tube gunsight just forward of the windscreen that appeared to be its only armament.
- In the 2009 video game Plants vs. Zombies, there is a character called the Peashooter who attacks zombies with peas.