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A straw, often made of metal, ending in a filter and used for drinking maté.
1856 July–October, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, volume IV, A. and C. Black, page 194:
The maté is then filled with yerva, after the bombilla has been placed in position. The bombilla is literally “a little pump,” that is, a sucking tube, ending in a perforated bulb, which performs the office of the perforated diaphragm in our teapot spouts.
