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ˈpistol-shot
[f. pistol n. + shot n.]
1. A shot from a pistol.
1662J. Davies tr. Olearius Voy. Ambass. 267 M. Mandelslo..kill'd the Leader of the Indian party with a Pistol⁓shot. 1796Helen M. Williams Lett. France IV. 137 (Jod) Several pistol-shot were fired at the president. 1899T. M. Ellis Three Cat's-eye Rings 122 Then there was a pistol-shot, and Clayside stood breathless over a lifeless man.
2. The distance to which a shot can be fired from a pistol; the range of a pistol.
c1645Tullie Siege of Carlisle (1840) 38 He came within pistle shot. 1685Travestin Siege Newheusel 6 Not above a Pistol-shot from it. 1741S. Speed in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 395 When we came within half pistol-shot, we hailed one of the French ships. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies 267 My object..was to get within pistol-shot of the buffalo.
3. One who shoots with a pistol.
1949Blunden Addresses on Gen. Subjects 24 He [sc. Shelley] was judged a horseman and a pistol-shot equal to his sporting friend Lord Byron. 1979C. Allen Tales from Dark Continent vii. 99 A great bayonet fighter and trick pistol shot and a splendid figure.
4. attrib. (in first quot. advb.).
1697W. Dampier Voy. (1699) 241 The Mouth of this Lagune is not Pistol-shot wide. 1730Hist. Litteraria I. 401 A Blast and Smoak..which obliged me to keep at Pistol-shot distance. 1900Westm. Gaz. 17 July 8/1 They might urge them on with the pistol-shot reports of their long whips. 1942Essays & Stud. XXVII. 59 And this pistol-shot style, bang bang bang, with its absolute certainty of detail, leaving the scraps of picture, like a jigsaw puzzle, for you to fit together. |