About The Word Pistol
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Pistol
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What's The Definition Of Pistol?
[n] a firearm that is held and fired with one hand
Synonyms | Synonyms for Pistol: handgun | shooting iron | side arm Related Terms | Find terms related to Pistol: automatic | blow to pieces | blow up | blowgun | blowpipe | brain | bring down | burn to death | charge | cock | cut down | cut to pieces | deal a deathblow | detonate | discharge | disintegrate | drop | eject | fell | fire | fire off | firearm | flamethrower | frag | gat | give the quietus | gun | gun down | gun for | handgun | heater | hit | incinerate | jugulate | lapidate | lay low | let fly | let off | load | musket | peashooter | pelt | pepper | pick off | piece | plug | poleax | pot | potshoot | potshot | prime | repeater | revolver | riddle | rifle | rod | sawed-off shotgun | shoot | shoot at | shoot down | shoot to death | shooting iron | shotgun | silence | six-gun | six-shooter | snipe | stab to death | stone | stone to death | strike | strike dead | take a potshot | torpedo | vaporize See Also | automatic | automatic pistol | derringer | firearm | forty-five | gat | gunstock | horse pistol | horse-pistol | peacekeeper | piece | revolver | rod | Saturday night special | semiautomatic | semiautomatic pistol | six-gun | six-shooter | small-arm | stock | Verey pistol | Very pistol | zip gun Pistol In Webster's Dictionary \Pis"tol\, n. [F. pistole, pistolet, It. pistola; prob.
from a form Pistola, for Pistoja, a town in Italy where
pistols were first made. Cf. {Pistole}.]
The smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one
hand, -- now of many patterns, and bearing a great variety of
names. See Illust. of {Revolver}.
{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.
\Pis"tol\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pistoled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pistoling}.] [Cf. F. pistoler.] To shoot with a pistol. ``To pistol a poacher.'' --Sydney Smith. |
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