The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colt revolver \Colt revolver\ (Firearms) A revolver made according to a system using a patented revolving cylinder, holding six cartridges, patented by Samuel Colt, an American inventor, in 1835. With various modifications, it was for many years been the standard for the United States army.
Usage examples of "colt revolver".
She pulled up alongside a long, green-painted cinderblock building with high, dirty windows, and she got out, holding Drummer's bassinet and the Colt revolver.
Earlier in the day the preacher had equipped himself with a Colt revolver from among Galloway's stores, and now he remembered the weapon and drew it from his saddle pouch.
Standing, Rourke blew the sand from the big Colt revolver, closed the cylinder, and stuffed the gun in his waistband.
The only gun in sight in the court-house was a short-barrelled Colt revolver stuck in the holster of the police officer who stood behind and a couple of feet to the right of me.
Lying beneath my face on that surface was the Colt revolver I’.
Rourke dove the two yards distance to the man standing beside the nearest truck, Rourke's right arm arcing forward like a fast moving pendulum, the spear-point blade of the Gerber biting into the throat of the man, Rourke twisting the blade, shoving the body away to choke to death on blood, Rourke clambering up into the truck cab, the driver was pulling a pistol, a snubby Colt revolver.
Martin picked up a pencil, hooked the trigger guard of the Colt revolver, and sniffed at the barrel.
Billy the Kid once emptied his Colt revolver at a bank teller from less than three feet away, and missed him six times.
As for fire, he carried a piece of flint and the barrel of the demolished old Colt revolver.
All Bode could do was hold the Colt revolver and stand there, hoping it wouldn't take long, hoping they wouldn't make much noise.
He laid his head against old carpet, straining to see what was required to free his Colt revolver with its eight-inch barrel.
When Frink had quit, there lay half-finished on his bench a Colt revolver of the Frontier period.
It must be some other means, there was the big naval colt revolver which Zouga kept in his cabin.