The word pistol is a correct and usable English word.
It can be used when referring to a type of small handgun. For example: The robber threatened the victim with a pistol.
But when a crook waved a pistol in Leonardo Bonucci's face last October, the Juventus defender punched his assailant twice before chasing him up the street.
She enlisted Edgecombe for protection, and gave him a Luger pistol that she had acquired for the purpose.
They also want to know: "How much is a Glock pistol?" "Which is the best rebel group to join?" "Is there training in jujitsu?" One of the most extraordinary questions, given the carnage in Syria, is: "Would it be wise to come there with my wife and one-year-old son?" The man replies, not surprisingly: "The situation right now isn't the best for families".
There are four of them: the pistol-toting medic with the silver hair, the Goth techy idly cradling an energy pistol, the tiny woman in big boots slapping a plank of wood in her fist, and the sharp-talking shotgunner.
US diplomatic cables made public by WikiLeaks described Khan's Russian hunting lodge as looking "like a Four Seasons hotel in the middle of nowhere", and he was said to come "to dinner armed with a chrome-plated pistol".
3. The Welsh Captain describes Pistol as a "rascally, scald [scabby], beggarly, lousy, pragging [show-off] knave" in Henry 5. 4. Sebastian calls the Boatswain a "bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog" in The Tempest. 5. Kent says Oswald is a "knave, beggar, coward, pander [pimp], and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch" in King Lear.
Harriet Harman was the first to jump the gun - or at least to say that when the starting pistol was eventually fired, a woman should be among the runners.
The episode also seemed to exemplify a sense that female anger no longer had the place in the mainstream that it had during the 1990s, when Clarkson was growing up listening to Alanis Morissette; she feels this is changing, raving about both Adele and country singer-songwriter Miranda Lambert's latest Pistol Annies project.
Sheriff's deputies told WALB-TV that 54-year-old Larry McElroy fired his 9mm pistol at the armadillo on Sunday night in the southern state of Georgia.
Russian media have suggested he could be accused of spying; a pistol, a recording device and €5,000 in cash were displayed on Russian television as evidence.
The torture report confirms that Nashiri was threatened with a pistol placed near his head and a cordless drill that was operated near his body.
