Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the general form of a pistol — that is, partly straight, with a curved addition or extension like the stock of a pistol.
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Examples
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Instead, they have relied on sales of souvenir coonskin caps modeled on the one supposedly worn by Mr. Crockett, toy "Bowie" knives and pistol-shaped shot glasses in their own Alamo gift shop to provide more than 90% of the site's roughly $5 million annual budget.
Remember the Alamo? It's Under Siege Again -- This Time From Within 2009
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The Cryerer sat awed amid the wreckage, pulling the trigger of the pistol-shaped controller.
The Cryerer Jim Hanas 2009
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This was what Israeli rightists and settlers had warned would happen: Handed over to the Palestinians, a pistol-shaped Gaza would become a deadly weapon pointed straight at the heart of Israel.
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This was what Israeli rightists and settlers had warned would happen: Handed over to the Palestinians, a pistol-shaped Gaza would become a deadly weapon pointed straight at the heart of Israel.
War In Gaza Has Shown Hidden Element Of Radicalism In Canada « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009
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The Cryerer sat awed amid the wreckage, pulling the trigger of the pistol-shaped controller.
The Cryerer 2009
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The shortages and delays have forced US and Jordanian trainers to improvise their way through the program, including purchasing pistol-shaped cigarette lighters for use in arrest drills and using their own cars for driver training.
Monday, March 31, 2008 As'ad 2008
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But these were stun guns of an entirely different order from the pistol-shaped weapon one might associate with the name.
With No One as Witness George, Elizabeth 2005
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Even as Tiffany remembered how an earlier student had disappeared behind a van and never emerged, the former Goth reached into her purse -- a voluminous string handbag that could have held all of the anatomy student's books and notebooks with room to spare -- and extracted a pistol-shaped object with a fat handgrip and a bulbous barrel.
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Quark riffled through the drawer and finally pulled out a pistol-shaped object covered with Ferengi designs.
The Long Night Dean Wesley Smith 2000
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Quark riffled through the drawer and finally pulled out a pistol-shaped object covered with Ferengi designs.
The Long Night Dean Wesley Smith 2000
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