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Another word for pistol

pistol Synonyms

pistol

n.

revolver, automatic pistol, automatic, six-shooter, side arm, heater*, gat*, rod*, Saturday night special, cannon, six-gun, pepper pot*, barker*, pill shooter*, iron*, forty-five, thirty-eight; see also gun 2, weapon 1.

Types of pistols include: automatic, repeating, Magnum, revolver, six-shooter, seven-shooter, Derringer, pocket, .22-caliber, .32-caliber, .38-caliber, .44-caliber, .45-caliber, 9-millimeter, Colt, Webley, Smith and Wesson, Ladysmith, Mauser, Nagant, Steyr, Browning, modÃ¨le d'ordonnance (French), Luger, Parabellum (both German).

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He raised his pistol and aimed.
The proceedings were stopped by the police, and Jeffrey's pistol was found to contain no bullet.
A desperate scuffle took place, Ryan being mortally wounded by Fitzgerald with a dagger, while Lord Edward himself was only secured after Sirr had disabled him with a pistol bullet in the shoulder.
They were not charged by the Imperialists at this moment, for Pappenheim had not yet arrived, and the usual cavalry tactics of the day were founded on the pistol and not on the sword and the charging horse.
Thus Regnault in his classical experiments (described below) found that the velocity of the report of a pistol carried through a pipe diminished with the intensity, and his results have been confirmed by J.

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