pistol

A firearm designed to be held and fired with one hand.

A rowdy or rambunctious person, especially a child.

To shoot with a pistol.

To shoot with a pistol.

A firearm intended to be held in one hand when aimed and fired.

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.

a firearm with a removable but-piece, and thus capable of being used either as a pistol or a carbine.

a pipe in which the blast for a furnace is heated, resembling a pistol in form.

The distance to which a pistol can propel a ball.

To shoot with a pistol.