pistol carbine (pistolkar"bin)

A long pistol having its stock so arranged that a shoulder piece or butt-piece can be adjusted to it, fitting it for firing from the shoulder. See cut in next column. IMG:content-0270.png:[blocks in formation] ally of Spain.] countries, especially of Spain Spain.] A gold coin of century Spain, worth at the beginning of the nineteenth century nearly $4 United States money. The name was also applied to the French louis d'or of gold IMG:content-0271.png:[blocks in formation] Pistole of Charles IV. of Spain, 1790.-British Museum. (Size of the original.) i ued by Louis XIII. in 1640, and to gold coins of various European countries, worth either more or le than the Spanish pistole. About 1835, the Swi pistole was worth nearly $4.75; the Italian, from $3.45 to $5.55; the German, about $4.- Double pistole. See double. pistoleer (pis-to-lēr'), n. [Also pistolier = G. pistolier ; pistolier (=Pg. pistolero = It. pistol i ere ), pistole , a pistol: see pistol .] One who fires or uses a pistol; a soldier armed with a pistol, especially a German reiter. pistol. IMG:content-0272.png:[blocks in formation] , a large pestle, pest are , pound, sere, pisere, pp. pistus, beat, pound: see pestle, pistil.] 1. In mach., a movable piece, generally of a cylindrical form, so fitted as to fill the sectional area of a tube, such as the barrel of a pump or the cylinder of a steam-engine, and capable of being driven C 6 alternately in two directions by pre ure on one or the other of its sides. One of its sides is fitted to a rod, called the piston-rod, to which it imparts reciprocatory motion, as in the steam-engine, where the motion given to the piston-rod is communicated to the machinery, or by which, on the other hand, it is itself made to move, as in the pump. Two sorts of pistons are used in pumps-one hollow with a valve, used in the suction-pump, and the other solid, which is employed in the force-pump. The latter is also called a plunger. C Section of Steam-cylinder a, piston; bb, piston-rod; cc, steam-ports. and Piston. IMG:content-0273.png:[blocks in formation] We had pestelets enew [that is, in plenty], And shot among them as we might. Raid of the Reid swire (Child's Ballads, VI. 136). Fetch me my pestilett , And charge me my gonne. Captain Car (Child's Ballads, VI. 151). pistolet2+ (pis'tō-let), n. [OF. pistolet , dim. of pistole , a pistole: see pistole .] A pistole. The pistolet and roials of plate are most currant there. Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 176. IMG:content-0274.png:[blocks in formation] pistol-grip (pis'tol-grip), like the butt of a pistol, attached to the under side of the small of the stock of fowling-pieces and rifles. It affords a better hold for the hand than the ordinary form of stock. Also pistol-hand. See cut under gun.