pistol : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pistol	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for pistol
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pistol n a firearm that is held and fired with one hand [syn: pistol, handgun, side arm, shooting iron]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Colt pistol \Colt pistol\ (Firearms) A self-loading or semi-automatic pistol with removable magazine in the handle holding seven cartridges. The recoil extracts and ejects the empty cartridge case, and reloads ready for another shot. Called also {Browning, [and] Colt-Browning}, {pistol}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pistol \Pis"tol\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pistoled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pistoling}.] [Cf. F. pistoler.] To shoot with a pistol. [bd]To pistol a poacher.[b8] --Sydney Smith.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [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 (15Feb98) [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}]