Word Meanings - PISTOLADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A pistol shot.

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• PISTOL
  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. Pistol carbine, a firearm with a removable but- piece, and thus capable of being used either as
• PISTOLEER
  One who uses a pistol. Carlyle.
• PISTOLADE
  A pistol shot.
• PISTOLE
  The name of certain gold coins of various values formerly coined in some countries of Europe. In Spain it was equivalent to a quarter doubloon, or about .90, and in Germany and Italy nearly the same. There was an old Italian pistole worth about
• PISTOLET
  A small pistol. Donne. Beau. & Fl.
• EPISTOLET
  A little epistle. Lamb.
• EPISTOLAR
  Epistolary. Dr. H. More.
• EPISTOLIZE
  To write epistles.
• EPISTOLIC; EPISTOLICAL
  Pertaining to letters or epistles; in the form or style of letters; epistolary.
• EPISTOLIZER
  A writer of epistles.
• EPISTOLOGRAPHY
  The art or practice of writing epistles.
• EPISTOLEAN
  One who writes epistles; a correspondent. Mary Cowden Clarke.
• EPISTOLER
  One of the clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler.
• EPISTOLOGRAPHIC
  Pertaining to the writing of letters; used in writing letters; epistolary. Epistolographic character or mode of writing, the same as Demotic character. See under Demotic.
• COLT PISTOL
  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.
• EPISTOLARY
  1. Pertaining to epistles or letters; suitable to letters and correspondence; as, an epistolary style. 2. Contained in letters; carried on by letters. "Epistolary correspondence." Addison.