The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colt pistol \Colt pistol\ (Firearms) A self-loading or semi-automatic pistol with removable magazine in the handle holding seven cartridges. The recoil extracts and ejects the empty cartridge case, and reloads ready for another shot. Called also Browning pistol, Colt-Browning pistol, automatic pistol and automatic.
Usage examples of "colt pistol".
Me, I had nothing but a dapple horse, a partnership in some mules, and my old Spencer and a Colt pistol.
The island had been a military base, and the graveyard had just opened on it shortly before Charles went there on his mysterious mission, armed with his Colt pistol.
On the principle that the Almighty helps those who show willing, she had Zouga's big Colt pistol stuffed into the waistband of her breeches and covered by the tail of her flannel shirt.
He parted his jacket slightly so the old man could see the butt of the Colt pistol holstered under his left arm.
If he knows facts-that ash with a high strontium content probably came from a highway flare, thatfaca is Portuguese for knife, that Ethiopian diners use no utensils and eat with their right hands exclusively, that a slug with five land-and-groove rifling marks, right twist, could not have been fired by a Colt pistol-if he knows these things he may just make the connection that places an unsub at the crime scene.
They both knew it was coming from the cancer that would soon kill him and from the urgency to pass along to his only child something more substantive than an NYPD shield, a nickel-plated Colt pistol and an old Dodge Charger in need of a transmission and cylinder heads.
When Tori found him in the alley behind her apartment shot to death with his own Colt pistol, she was hardly surprised.
Then he caught Tudwal by the throat and pulled him close enough to the cage that he could reach with the other hand and yank the man's Colt pistol out of its holster.