Pistol - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Pistol :  (noun)

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

Based on WordNet 2.0

ColtPistol : \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, & Colt-Browning, pistol.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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!"

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Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:

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!"

Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:

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