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  • verb Present participle of pistol.

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Examples

  • Anytime you can have a botched assassination attempt go completely wrong only to work in your favor such as sliding off the side of building and using “rope” a funny moment for fans who remember the importance of rope to bust through a window to then slide on your knees, double pistoling while riddling bad guys with bullets!

    Movie Review: The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day 2009

  • ‘If he was to talk of pistoling ’em all, I should be obliged to say,

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • A part of them ran to the gun room and secured the arms and ammunition, pistoling or cutting down all such as stood in their way or offered opposition; the other party burst into the great cabin at the heels of Pierre le Grand, found the captain and a party of his friends at cards, set a pistol to his breast, and demanded him to deliver up the ship.

    Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main 1921

  • The last of these, at Folkestone Court, in May, was remarkable for the cold-blooded pistoling of the page, who surprised the masked and solitary burglar.

    The Hound of the Baskervilles 1901

  • A part of them ran to the gun room and secured the arms and ammunition, pistoling or cutting down all such as stood in their way or offered opposition; the other party burst into the great cabin at the heels of

    Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish main Howard Pyle 1882

  • A part of them ran to the gun room and secured the arms and ammunition, pistoling or cutting down all such as stood in their way or offered opposition; the other party burst into the great cabin at the heels of Pierre le Grand, found the captain and a party of his friends at cards, set a pistol to his breast, and demanded him to deliver up the ship.

    Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Howard Pyle 1882

  • Why, truly, in the very track most proper for execution of his design, and pistoling the first of the king's subjects who ventures to question his intentions. ''

    The Waverley 1877

  • We dashed at them pistoling some and cutting down others; but not until half their number lay dead on the ground or desperately wounded did they attempt to escape; by which time the main body were almost up to us.

    Adventures in the Far West William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • 'If he was to talk of pistoling 'em all, I should be obliged to say, "Certainly -- serve 'em right."'

    Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841

  • If I've smashed your panels, or done you any injury, I am willing to pay for repairs, and make as much apology as one man has any right to expect from another; or, if it will be a greater ease to your mind, we'll off coats, ring for Shrimp and Harry Oaklands 'boy to see fair play, and have it out on the spot, all snug and comfortable; but no pistoling work, thank ye.'

    Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil Frank E. Smedley 1835

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