Pistol

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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}.


     [1913 Webster]
  
     {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.
         [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pistol
       n : a firearm that is held and fired with one hand [syn: {handgun},
            {side arm}, {shooting iron}]
       [also: {pistolling}, {pistolled}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "pistol":
     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
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  pistol n. [IBM] A tool that makes it all too easy for you to shoot
     yourself in the foot. "Unix `rm *' makes such a nice pistol!"
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  pistol
       
          [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}]