Dictionary Entry
A handgun, typically with a chamber integrated in the barrel, a semi-automatic action and a box magazine.
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Poetry examples for “pistol”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →It seems a shame to break the air
In two with this pistol, but I've my share
Of drudgery like other men.
Read full poem →Close her cheek to his, 10
Close the pistol to her brow--
God forgive them this!
Read full poem →bombast of the Scythian conqueror by making his
Ancient Pistol swagger in an exaggerated style, and
lest we should mistake the drift of the satire. Pistol
Read full poem →With thinking (oh, my heart!) of me?
I paced the streets; a pistol chose,
To guard my now important life
Read full poem →Which one of the O’Brien boys it was
Who snapped the toy pistol against my hand?
There when the flags were red and white
Read full poem →He saw no mark upon her, and no blood;
No pistol by her, nothing disarranged
Of hair or clothing, showing struggle--nothing
Read full poem →That I was frightened and told my
Mother; And that my Father got a pistol
And would have killed Charlie, who was a big boy,
Read full poem →'Twere joy should I hear that the pistol