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pistol
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pistol
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pistol/rifle shot
▪ A pistol shot rang out in the darkness.
water pistol
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
automatic
▪ All these men were encumbered with their heavy loads and had only automatic pistols.
▪ Two of them are automatic pistols, caliber twenty-two, manufactured by High Standard.
▪ The man's face was white and mean and he was pointing an automatic pistol at Charles' chest.
▪ He will identify those two automatic pistols as weapons he test-fired at the Ballistics Lab in order to obtain exemplary rounds.
▪ Suddenly he pulled out a silver automatic pistol and fired a barrage at the driver's head.
■ NOUN
shot
▪ The window frames rattled violently and glass cracked with the sound of a pistol shot.
▪ The first slap sounds like a pistol shot.
▪ Their footsteps suddenly cracked like pistol shots as the carpet was replaced by plastic tiles.
▪ Then a pistol shot rang out.
▪ Like the steeplechase where Vronsky breaks his mare's back with reckless riding, you can only wait for the pistol shot.
▪ The pistol shot is so loud it can be heard well over half a mile away.
▪ It was only a pistol shot.
▪ Two pistol shots around ten-thirty on a summer morning in Bosnia and the Edwardian idyll was shattered for ever.
water
▪ The kids had been in the car and there was a water pistol on the shelf under the dash.
▪ And whoever is in charge of bathtime should watch out ... there's even a water pistol cleverly disguised as a flower.
▪ Lots of events including Tombola and water pistol shooting.
■ VERB
arm
▪ They are armed with two pistols and a sword.
▪ He is armed with a large-caliber pistol and considered extremely dangerous.
▪ The robbers were usually armed with a pistol and shotgun.
carry
▪ He didn't know I always carry pistols under my cloak, and he may well ask why.
▪ He said du Pont frequently carried a. 38-caliber pistol on the estate and abused cocaine and alcohol.
▪ They carry pistols, handcuffs, batons and gas-spray guns.
▪ Used to carry a pistol and everything.
▪ I've only had to carry a pistol once, just a few hours.
▪ Two of them this time, both carrying holstered pistols.
fire
▪ Crouching, Yeremi contented himself with firing his bolt pistol at the athletically shifting targets.
▪ It had been a while since she'd fired a pistol and the initial retort took even her by surprise.
▪ You could fire a starting pistol next to some and they would barely look up.
▪ There was a crack, but no sepoy dropped dead; the percussion cap had fired but not the pistol.
▪ The policeman fired some pistol shots in the air, but there was no answer.
▪ Suddenly, Joyce fired his pistol and the battle had begun.
▪ He fired his pistol in the air and charged over the top as if he were chasing some errant fox.
hold
▪ In front of the door was another man holding a pistol.
▪ He held his pistol shakily toward the ruins and fired.
▪ He held a loaded air pistol to her stepfather's neck and threatened to blow his head off.
▪ The guy holds tight to his pistol but he can't make me move my knee.
▪ Whichever foreign power captured Ireland held a pistol aimed at Britain's heart.
▪ The breadhead in the brown topcoat now holds a pistol in his hand.
▪ Casually he holds his small pistol towards me, butt first, for inspection.
load
▪ It was now just light enough on the roof for him to see to load his pistols.
▪ I loaded the pistol and thought that nothing had gone right for me since I had come here.
▪ Quickly loading the Very pistol with the red cartridge, Larsen aimed it at the open skylight and pulled the trigger.
▪ As for my grandfather, he kept a loaded pistol in his desk.
▪ When I was in a safe place, I loaded my pistols, this time with dry powder.
▪ This soldier had let him load his pistol and point it empty.
point
▪ The man's face was white and mean and he was pointing an automatic pistol at Charles' chest.
▪ The officers used a chemical spray called Capstun on Hernandez when he resisted and pointed a toy pistol at them.
▪ Jack said, and he looked up at Oxie and Murray, who stood up and pointed their pistols at Charlie.
pull
▪ I pull the pistol and hold it within my jacket.
▪ Feffer, wishing to divert him, had told him the tale of the insurance adjuster who pulled out the pistol.
▪ As Kara Voss waited on Jenkins, he pulled a. 22-caliber pistol from his clothing and shot her in the head.
shoot
▪ On seeing them escape, Shovel requested that he be shot with his own pistol, rather than return in disgrace.
▪ Other reports said Mr Nagdi had been shot with a Beretta pistol equipped with a silencer.
▪ He wasn't shot and his pistol is fully loaded.
take
▪ I filled my pockets with bread, then took two pistols and the powder for them.
▪ He let his hand fall, and after a while she took the pistol.
▪ Sharpe took the loaded pistol from his belt, cocked it, and laid it beside him.
▪ I had seen a way for me to take off my pistol.
▪ I got my deed and went right home... took off my pistol and hung it up in the closet.
▪ When the shopkeeper asks for his money, he takes a pistol out of his pocket and gives it to him.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
snub-nosed pistol/revolver etc
▪ The snub-nosed revolver looked like a toy in Ray Shepherd's hand.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ First, the appalling Beria had been arrested at pistol point in the Kremlin and executed as privily as his victims.
▪ Jack kept his arm at his side, pistol down, watching the cat squeal and squirm upside down on the fork.
▪ Quickly loading the Very pistol with the red cartridge, Larsen aimed it at the open skylight and pulled the trigger.
▪ Rifles, bayonets, pistols, haversacks, cartridge-boxes, canteens, blankets, belts, and overcoats lined the road.
▪ The top right-hand drawer of the desk contained the traditional little tin box and a pistol.
▪ They hung on the Sergeant's every word, handled the pistols with reverence; their concentration was intense.
▪ When the shopkeeper asks for his money, he takes a pistol out of his pocket and gives it to him.
▪ When the statement had been issued, Mr Telford allowed his pistol to be hauled up on a rope.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pistol

Pistol \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.

Pistol

Pistol \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.

  1. The discharge of a pistol.

  2. The distance to which a pistol can propel a ball.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pistol

"small hand-held firearm," 1570s, from Middle French pistole "short firearm" (1566), of uncertain origin, sometimes said to be from German Pistole, from Czech pis'tala "firearm," literally "tube, pipe," from pisteti "to whistle," of imitative origin, related to Russian pischal "shepherd's pipe."\n

\nBut earlier English form pistolet (1550) is said to be from Middle French pistolet "a small firearm," also "a small dagger," which may be the literal sense; though some connect this word with Italian pistolese, in reference to Pistoia, town in Tuscany noted for gunsmithing. Pistol-whip (v.) is first recorded 1942.

Wiktionary
pistol

n. 1 A handgun, (non-gloss definition: typically) with a chamber integrated in the barrel, a semi-automatic action and a box magazine. 2 The mechanical component of a fuse in a bomb or torpedo responsible for firing the detonator. 3 A creative and unpredictable jokester, a constant source of entertainment and surprises. 4 (context Southern US English) A small boy who is bright, alert and very active. 5 (context American football English) A play formation in which the quarterback is a few feet behind the center when the ball is snapped, but closer than in a shotgun formation, with a running back a few feet behind him. vb. (context transitive English) To shoot (at) a target with a pistol.

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WordNet
pistol

  1. n. a firearm that is held and fired with one hand [syn: handgun, side arm, shooting iron]

  2. [also: pistolling, pistolled]

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Wikipedia
Pistol (disambiguation)

A pistol is a small handheld firearm but may also refer to:

Pistol

A pistol is a type of handgun. Some handgun experts and dictionaries make a technical distinction that views pistols as a subset of handguns; others use the terms interchangeably. Sometimes in usage, the term "pistol" refers to a handgun having one chamber integral with the barrel, making pistols distinct from the other main type of handgun, the revolver, which has a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers. But UK/rest of Commonwealth usage does not always make this distinction, particularly when the terms are used by the military. For example, the official designation of the Webley Mk VI revolver was "Pistol, Revolver, Webley, No. 1 Mk VI". In contrast to Merriam-Webster the Oxford English Dictionary (a descriptive dictionary) describes 'pistol' as a small firearm to be used in one hand and the usage of "revolver" as being a type of handgun and gives its original form as "revolving pistol"

Pistol (film)

Pistol is a 1973 Swedish drama film directed by George Tirl. Inga Tidblad won the award for Best Actress at the 10th Guldbagge Awards.

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Usage examples of "pistol".

Negro, was apprehended in Tennessee on a Friday on a warrant alleging no more than a theft of a pistol, and taken to South Carolina on a Sunday.

Pangle stood beside him, and theirs was the proud and nervous pose men struck when having ambrotypes made at the start of the war, though instead of rifle musket and Colt pistol and bowie knife, Stobrod and Pangle held fiddle and banjo before them as defining implements.

He was so antipathetic toward the way politics ran on this island that he carried a large-calibre automatic pistol holstered under his armpit.

He wore a straight sword, had a short barrelled carbine sheathed in his saddle holster and had a brace of pistols stuck in his belt.

She had begun to wonder if Harold might not just go crackers some night and start blazing away with his two pistols.

Brownings and 9mm Lahtis, Polish Radoms, Italian Berretta autos, and Glisenti revolvers, a few dozen Russian Nagant revolvers in poor shape, three different configurations of Spanish Astra pistols, some practically new 7.

Pat tenderly patted the Berretta 9mm pistol her oldest brother had given her and tried very hard to look innocent.

One Berretta 9mm pistol with three clips, one case of formula, and three baby bottles.

His twin yanked open the carriage door, brandished his pistol at the passengers and ordered them to the ground.

Even Count Aldo Belli was now on his feet, brandishing his pistol and shouting with a high, girlish hysteria.

Protesting shrilly and brandishing an expensively plated and engraved pistol, it was clear that his presence in the Rolls was by no means voluntary.

The two brasses came together, one with the pitcher and one with a water pistol that needed filling.

Several men, bristling with knives and pistols, were swarming out of the smaller boat onto the dock.

She had fired the first shots, using the Browning pistol hidden under her burka, the rounds ripping out through the fabric.

The woman, dressed in tight leather pants and short bustier covered with a desert-camouflaged military vest, aimed a laser pistol at him.