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pistol 音标拼音: [p'ɪstəl] n. 手枪,信号枪
vt. 以手枪射击 手枪,信号枪以手枪射击 pistol n 1: a firearm that is held and fired with one hand [synonym: {pistol}, {handgun}, {side arm}, {shooting iron}] 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] 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] 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 [IBM] A tool that makes it all too easy for you to shoot
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