1. pistol - Noun
2. pistol - Verb
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.
To shoot with a pistol.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA book used to purportedly smuggle a pistol into Stammheim Prison It has been questioned how Baader and Raspe managed to obtain a gun in the high-security prison wing specially constructed for the first generation RAF members. Source: Internet
A Baby Desert Eagle pistol and sawed off shotgun were recovered at the crime scene. Source: Internet
According to Corbett's later account, he fired at Booth because the fugitive "raised his pistol to shoot" at them. Source: Internet
According to investigators, Parsons confronted the male homeowner, hit him with a pistol and tied him up with zip ties. Source: Internet
A dummy dressed in a hoodie was sprawled under a picnic table on AstroTurf covered in blood, with a pistol near his rubber hand; another dummy in a house dress lay on the floor of a fake kitchen with the oven door open. Source: Internet
According to witnesses, a white man is alleged to have told one of the armed black men to surrender his pistol. Source: Internet