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单词 pistol
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
pis•tol /ˈpɪstəl/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. Militarya short firearm intended to be held and fired with one hand:a.22 caliber pistol.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
pis•tol  (pistl),USA pronunciation n., v., -toled, -tol•ing or (esp. Brit.) -tolled, -tol•ling. 
n. 
  1. Militarya short firearm intended to be held and fired with one hand.

v.t. 
  1. Militaryto shoot with a pistol.
  • Czech píŝt'ala literally, pipe, fife, whistle (presumably a slang term for a type of light harquebus employed during the Hussite wars), akin to piŝtět to squeak, peep
  • German, earlier pitschal, pitschole, petsole
  • Middle French pistole
  • 1560–70
pistol•like′, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
pistol /ˈpɪstəl/ n
  1. a short-barrelled handgun
  2. hold a pistol to a person's headto threaten a person in order to force him to do what one wants
vb ( -tols, -tolling, -tolled) ( US -tols, -toling, -toled)
  1. (transitive) to shoot with a pistol
Etymology: 16th Century: from French pistole, from German, from Czech pišt'ala pistol, pipe; related to Russian pischal shepherd's pipes
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