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pistol

ˈpɪstəl
WordNet
Wheel lock pistol. Wheel lock is secured with two lock screws. The barrel is partially octagonal (back) and round. Narrow tread band in the middle. The drawer is decorated with a simple grain motif and inlaid with engraved strips of plates. At the bottom the letters HW Between the buttocks and buttocks and engraved bone ring. Signed and marked on the chamber: H R. Condition good. Almost identical gun: NG-NM-11422-A.
Wheel lock pistol. Wheel lock is secured with two lock screws. The barrel is partially octagonal (back) and round. Narrow tread band in the middle. The drawer is decorated with a simple grain motif and inlaid with engraved strips of plates. At the bottom the letters HW Between the buttocks and buttocks and engraved bone ring. Signed and marked on the chamber: H R. Condition good. Almost identical gun: NG-NM-11422-A.
  1. (n) pistol
    a firearm that is held and fired with one hand
Illustrations
The decoration of this gun is of high quality. Part of a couple. The lock is engraved with, among other things, scrolls and a signature; a groove runs across the tail of the strike plate; blued internally. The breech of the barrel is attached from below; above there is a ridge, interrupted by chiseled acanthus leaves; engraved with the same signature as the clasp and foliage; each face of the barrel is stamped in brass with a double-headed eagle mark within a shield; the same brand is on the bottom; the visor grain is made of brass. The cob is carved with acanthus leaves, among other things. The brass fittings are embossed with embossed foliage and Classical warriors and consist of an lace-worked screw plate of asymmetrical curls on each side of a mask, an open-worked thumb plate with a man's head with a long wig, and a trigger brace and butt cap decorated with leaf scrolls around. a grotesque mask at the bottom; the ramrod is fitted with a brass cap.
The decoration of this gun is of high quality. Part of a couple. The lock is engraved with, among other things, scrolls and a signature; a groove runs across the tail of the strike plate; blued internally. The breech of the barrel is attached from below; above there is a ridge, interrupted by chiseled acanthus leaves; engraved with the same signature as the clasp and foliage; each face of the barrel is stamped in brass with a double-headed eagle mark within a shield; the same brand is on the bottom; the visor grain is made of brass. The cob is carved with acanthus leaves, among other things. The brass fittings are embossed with embossed foliage and Classical warriors and consist of an lace-worked screw plate of asymmetrical curls on each side of a mask, an open-worked thumb plate with a man's head with a long wig, and a trigger brace and butt cap decorated with leaf scrolls around. a grotesque mask at the bottom; the ramrod is fitted with a brass cap.
Flint pre-loading gun, ramrod is missing. The barrel, decorated with crossed anchors, is attached to the drawer with an iron shackle, which in turn is attached to the drawer by a tail. Stock cap, trigger guard and pan are made of brass. Simple iron flint lock. Opposite the lock is a bracket on the drawer, with which the gun can be hung on a belt. For the most part, this pistol corresponds to the heavy cavalry pistol M 1820.
Flint pistol heavy cavalry, M1820
This five-barrel flint gun could fire up to nineteen shots in a stacked charge. The lock is engraved with flower tendrils; the stepped tail of the lock plate is shaped like a monster head. The four barrels are soldered around a smaller caliber regulator tube; the top one is stamped with a mark in the shape of an acorn, marked on either side with an I and a K respectively; the right barrel has two zundholes; between the top and right barrel is a winged screw to block the front internal zund hole. Aside from the iron trigger guard with an engraved sunflower, the silver fittings consist of a drawer cap, a ramrod tube and a butt cap, all engraved with finials; the ramrod has a matching hood.
Flint pistol with five barrels for stacked charges
The trophy has a helmet, shield and crossed rider pistols. From series, consisting of a title page and 16 pages.
The trophy has a helmet, shield and crossed rider pistols. From series, consisting of a title page and 16 pages.
Part of a couple. The tail of the lock plate is carved in relief with acanthus leaves; the lock plate is signed. The blued barrel is decorated with gold-encrusted arabesques, Classical warriors and a seated man (emperor?) In toga under a ram's head, flanked by putti and surrounded by foliage; the barrel is stamped on the bottom with a mark resembling a globe with a cross or trifold. The butt is separated from the solid ivory butt by a band of gilt silver in the shape of a knotted festoon; the butt is carved in relief, with a grotesque mask, a curly acanthus leaf and beaded edges; the butt is carved all around like the head of a Classical mustachioed warrior wearing a gilt silver helmet with chin straps, decorated with separately applied silver foliage, a grotesque mask on the back and a three-dimensional silver lizard on top. The fittings are gilded silver and consist of a drawer cap, two ramrod sleeves with relief, and a trigger guard with separately applied, openwork silver arabesques; no screw plate, the butt cap has the shape of a helmet; the ivory ramrod has a gilded silver cap.
Part of a couple. The tail of the lock plate is carved in relief with acanthus leaves; the lock plate is signed. The blued barrel is decorated with gold-encrusted arabesques, Classical warriors and a seated man (emperor?) In toga under a ram's head, flanked by putti and surrounded by foliage; the barrel is stamped on the bottom with a mark resembling a globe with a cross or trifold. The butt is separated from the solid ivory butt by a band of gilt silver in the shape of a knotted festoon; the butt is carved in relief, with a grotesque mask, a curly acanthus leaf and beaded edges; the butt is carved all around like the head of a Classical mustachioed warrior wearing a gilt silver helmet with chin straps, decorated with separately applied silver foliage, a grotesque mask on the back and a three-dimensional silver lizard on top. The fittings are gilded silver and consist of a drawer cap, two ramrod sleeves with relief, and a trigger guard with separately applied, openwork silver arabesques; no screw plate, the butt cap has the shape of a helmet; the ivory ramrod has a gilded silver cap.
Five horsemen fighting with swords and pistols. In the middle a figure is shot in the back, on the left a killed rider is lying on the ground. The print is part of a six-part series of prints with horseman fights. Print numbered bottom right: 2.
Five horsemen fighting with swords and pistols. In the middle a figure is shot in the back, on the left a killed rider is lying on the ground. The print is part of a six-part series of prints with horseman fights. Print numbered bottom right: 2.
Landscape with two horsemen firing at each other with pistols.
Landscape with two horsemen firing at each other with pistols.
Battlefield scene with riders fighting each other with swords, spears and pistols. In the foreground, a rider is lashing out at his opponent with a sword, their horses trample a rider lying on the ground and his horse. The print is part of a six-part series of prints with horseman fights. Print numbered right of center: 5.
Battlefield scene with riders fighting each other with swords, spears and pistols. In the foreground, a rider is lashing out at his opponent with a sword, their horses trample a rider lying on the ground and his horse. The print is part of a six-part series of prints with horseman fights. Print numbered right of center: 5.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
Minors in Kansas City, Missouri, are not allowed to purchase cap pistols; they may buy shotguns freely, however.
  1. Pistol
    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.
  2. Pistol
    To shoot with a pistol. "To pistol a poacher."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) pistol
    A firearm intended to be held in one hand when aimed and fired. It came into use early in the sixteenth century, perhaps as early as l500, for by 1520 it was common as a weapon of the reiters or German mercenary cavalry, who were called pistoleers from its use. The early pistol was fitted with the wheel-lock, which was superseded by the flint-lock, and the latter by the percussion-lock. Pistols with more than one barrel have been in use from the introduction of the weapon, those with two having the barrels sometimes side by side, sometimes one over the other. The stock of the pistol has been made of many forms, the old cavalry pistol having it only slightly curved, so that it was held, when pointed at an object, by the right hand, with the lock uppermost, the barrel to the left, the trigger to the right. When accnrate aiming was required, as in dueling-pistols, the handle was made much more curved. See revolver.
  2. pistol
    To shoot with a pistol.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Pistol
    pis′tol a small hand-gun, held in one hand when fired
  2. (v.t) Pistol
    to shoot with a pistol
Quotations
Oliver Goldsmith
There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
Oliver Goldsmith
I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead -- the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!
J. G. Ballard
Thomas Carlyle
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
Thomas Carlyle
Charles Lamb
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
Charles Lamb
William Gilmore Simms
The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.
William Gilmore Simms
Jean-Paul Sartre
Words are loaded pistols.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F. pistole, pistolet, It. pistola,; prob. from a form Pistola, for Pistoja, a town in Italy where pistols were first made. Cf. Pistole

Usage in the news

Czech's Martin Strnad shoots to 1st major title in World Cup Final rapid fire pistol. therepublic.com

BANGKOK — Martin Strnad of the Czech Republic won his first major title at the shooting World Cup Final when he won the rapid fire pistol on Friday. therepublic.com

LaserLyte has introduced the Rear Sight Laser (RSL) for Taurus Slim Pistols that allows operators to retain existing grips or internal stock parts, according to the company. policemag.com

Try a reflex sight on your rifle, pistol or bow (Joe's Outdoor Office video). al.com

2011 – Columbia releases Pistol Annies' debut album, "Hell On Heels," digitally. kicks105.com

LA's gun buyback: rocket launch er , pocket pistols turned into LAPD. scpr.org

Glock semiautomatic pistol links recent mass shootings. ashingtonpost.com

Pazz & Jop 2011: Alex Macpherson On Pistol Annies, PJ Harvey, And Why You Should Always Trust Diddy. villagevoice.com

The company produces suppressors — also known as silencers — for both pistols and rifles. timesfreepress.com

His parents were killed in an alley by a thug with a pistol. dallasobserver.com

Dry-fire training pistol helps enhance shooting skills. lawofficermagazine.com

Below is a press release sent out by the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association. blog.timesunion.com

Air pistol used, according to police. thenewsenterprise.com

WCU 1-4 but better with 'pistol' offense. timesfreepress.com

Here's the new video from Pistol Annies… " Takin ' Pills", the second single released from their debut album, "Hell on Heels". kkyr.com

Usage in scientific papers

The most massive star is the Pistol star, with an estimated initial mass of 200 − 250 M⊙ (Figer et al. 1998).
The First Cosmic Structures and their Effects

For example, to deliver a pistol bullet with a BC of 0.135 at a velocity of 1200 fps at 50 yards, one would work up a load producing 1385 fps at the muzzle.
A method for testing handgun bullets in deer

There is evidence of massive star formation, for instance in the Quintuplet cluster (Nagata), that illuminates the pistol-shaped HII regions (Figer), and hot dust has been mapped with ISOCAM.
The Central Regions of the Galaxy and Galaxies: A Brief Summary

Further, it contains two “Luminous Blue Variables ,” including the “Pistol Star.” The ionizing flux from the cluster is 1050.9 photons s−1 , or roughly what is required to ionize the nearby “Sickle” HII region (G0.18−0.04).
The Initial Mass Function in the Galactic Center

It is then shown that these q -Genocchi numbers have interesting combinatorial interpretations in the classical models for Genocchi numbers such as alternating pistols, alternating permutations, non intersecting lattice paths and skew Young tableaux.
A q-analog of the Seidel generation of Genocchi numbers

Usage in literature

What a gay velvet sling, hung with three silver-mounted pistols! "Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates" by Howard I. Pyle

He knew it was a pistol and he released his hold and stepped back. "'Firebrand' Trevison" by Charles Alden Seltzer

Near them Dick with his pistol. "The Dodge Club" by James De Mille

In the first place the only target anyone in the combat had was the flash of an opponent's pistol. "Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks" by H. Irving Hancock

I believe I should have been more collected in going up to the muzzle of an antagonist's pistol! "The Quadroon" by Mayne Reid

He felt himself covered by his pistol, and did not dare to move. "The Cryptogram" by James De Mille

As she made no reply, he went over and picked up the knife and the pistol. "The Dark Star" by Robert W. Chambers

One was riding up and telling him to give up his pistol. "Red Men and White" by Owen Wister

He had a loaded pistol in his pocket. "Dave Porter in the Far North" by Edward Stratemeyer

But the glowing ray pistol waved them back. "The Copper-Clad World" by Harl Vincent

Usage in poetry
One cracked him with his billy
Above the left eye,
One thugged him with his pistol
And left him lie.
"The Ballad Of Joe Meek" by Sterling A Brown
But hark to that loud pistol shot,
In a second rends the skies.
A human being on the sod
In his death struggle lies.
"The Gallant Peter Clarke" by Anonymous Oceania
Then laughed the robber loud in scorn
As he his pistol drew.
Said he 'My hand is firm and strong,
And my aim is ever true.
"The Gallant Peter Clarke" by Anonymous Oceania
Up and down, up and down
They go, the gray rat and the brown:
A pistol cracks: they too are dead.
The nightwind rustles overhead.
"After the Salvo" by Herbert Ashley Asquith Author object (295)
"But reach my pistol, Glaud, my man,
And charge ye weel my gun:
For, but an I pierce that bluidy butcher
My babes we been undone."
"Edom O'Gordon" by Henry Morley Author object (291)
And now commenced the struggle
For life between them both,
One hand of Clarke's the pistol grasped
And the other grasped his throat.
"The Gallant Peter Clarke" by Anonymous Oceania