WordNet
horse-pistol
n. a large pistol (usually in a holster) formerly carried by horsemen [syn: horse pistol]
Usage examples of "horse-pistol".
And it was blim, blam, blim, six times an' twice over, with his two big horse-pistols, an' the house perforated like a cullender.
They wore casques without horse-tails, and cuirasses of beaten iron, with horse-pistols in their holsters, and long sabre-swords.
There were ancient fowling pieces, musketoons, horse-pistols, and even a matchlock.
Nor could she help wishing, once she had watched the mail-coach sweep through a turnpike, that Uncle John had provided the groom not with a horse-pistol, for which there did not seem to be the slightest occasion, but with a yard of tin, that he might have blown up for the pike in that same lordly style.