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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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"Pistol" Quotes from Famous Books

... young major concluded he drew from behind him a leather case which he sprung open as he presented it to the astonished master of the institution. There, in the case, rested a very fine automatic pistol, its polished handle engraved with Colonel Colby's name and also the fact that it was presented to him by the school, with the date. The hat had been passed around among the boys for contributions to this gift, and ...

— The Rover Boys Under Canvas - or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine • Arthur M. Winfield

... yellow hair—the hands of the old-time car-boy—he swung him wide, as a hammer-thrower swings his hammer. Marcus's feet flipped from the ground, he spun through the air about McTeague as helpless as a bundle of clothes. All at once there was a sharp snap, almost like the report of a small pistol. Then Marcus rolled over and over upon the ground as McTeague released his grip; his arm, the one the dentist had seized, bending suddenly, as though a third joint had formed between wrist and elbow. The arm ...

— McTeague • Frank Norris

... to you, sir," said the cabman, in a husky whisper. His expectant palm closed rigidly on the silver coins, and his whip fell on the lean sides of his horse with a crack like a pistol shot as he wheeled round, leaving the detective standing ...

— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees

... hypodermic in his hand, turned. Stephen Hampton sprang at her, dropping his drink. And Albert, the prognathous attendant, released Colonel Hampton and leaped at the woman with the pistol, with the unthinking promptness of a dog whose master ...

— Dearest • Henry Beam Piper

... a discouraged whisper, after a twig had burst under his foot with a report like the shot of a pistol. "You travel ...

— A Poor Wise Man • Mary Roberts Rinehart

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