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noun

Pistol n. The smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one hand, now of many patterns, and bearing a great variety of names.

Pistol carbine, a firearm with a removable but-piece, and thus capable of being used either as a pistol or a carbine.

Pistol pipe (Metal.), a pipe in which the blast for a furnace is heated, resembling a pistol in form.

Pistol shot.

(a)

The discharge of a pistol.

(b)

The distance to which a pistol can propel a ball.

verb

Pistol v. t. (past & past part. pistoled; pres. part. pistoling) To shoot with a pistol. "To pistol a poacher."

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Etymology of 'Pistol'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pistol" Quotes from Famous Books

... danced out in front of his horse waving a turban to frighten it, and at the same time whirling a wicked looking scimitar around his head. Roberts drew his pistol but the weapon missed fire. The fanatic sprang forward, and it is probable that the career of a future Field Marshal would have ended then and there, had not a lancer spurred his horse in between ...

— Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers • J. Walker McSpadden

... ance they pit her till't, Her tartan petticoat she'll kilt, An'durk an' pistol at her belt, She'll tak the streets, An' rin her whittle to the hilt, ...

— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... I want to get away for?" I haint done nothin: and there's a witness here that will swear to a thing or two for me, when the trial comes on, guess you'll find; besides, aint you young to ride by my side, with a loaded pistol in ...

— The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson

... train, Colonel George Baylor, the famous Captain of Texas Rangers, chided Fountain for not wearing a cord to fasten his pistol to his belt, as then did all the Rangers, to prevent its loss from the scabbard in a running fight; and he finished by detaching his own cord, and looping one end to Fountain's belt and the other to his pistol. Then Fountain bade his old friend good-bye and boarded the train with ...

— The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier • Edgar Beecher Bronson

... it from Underwood, who had had it from Wilcox, who had had it from Dangle, who had been present on the occasion, that Rollitt had met the head-master in a lane near Widow Wisdom's, and holding a pistol at his head had made him turn out all his pockets, and relieved ...

— The Cock-House at Fellsgarth • Talbot Baines Reed

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