Meaning of PISTOL
| Pronunciation: | | 'pistl
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| | Definition: | | [n] a firearm that is held and fired with one hand |
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| | Synonyms: | | handgun, shooting iron, side arm |
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| | See Also: | | automatic, automatic pistol, derringer, firearm, forty-five, gat, gunstock, horse pistol, horse-pistol, peacekeeper, piece, revolver, rod, Saturday night special, semiautomatic, semiautomatic pistol, six-gun, six-shooter, small-arm, stock, Verey pistol, Very pistol, zip gun | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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}.
(a) The discharge of a pistol.
(b) The distance to which a pistol can propel a ball.
\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.
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| Computing Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | [IBM] A tool that makes it all too easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot. "Unix "rm *" makes such a nice pistol!" [Jargon File] |
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| Dream Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Dreaming that you are aiming a pistol indicates that you are trying to target a specific goal. However, if the overtones of the dream is that of fear, anger and aggression, then the pistol means power by which you need to defend yourself against the fear and anger. |
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| | Related Terms: | | automatic, blow to pieces, blow up, blowgun, blowpipe, brain, bring down, burn to death, charge, cock, cut down, cut to pieces, deal a deathblow, detonate, discharge, disintegrate, drop, eject, fell, fire, fire off, firearm, flamethrower, frag, gat, give the quietus, gun, gun down, gun for, handgun, heater, hit, incinerate, jugulate, lapidate, lay low, let fly, let off, load, musket, peashooter, pelt, pepper, pick off, piece, plug, poleax, pot, potshoot, potshot, prime, repeater, revolver, riddle, rifle, rod, sawed-off shotgun, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, shoot to death, shooting iron, shotgun, silence, six-gun, six-shooter, snipe, stab to death, stone, stone to death, strike, strike dead, take a potshot, torpedo, vaporize |
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