“pocket、pistol”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

pocket-pistol

释义

ˈpocket-ˈpistol
[See pocket n. 14.]
1. A small pistol to be carried in the pocket.
1612S. Mountagu in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 240 There are they say pocket pistols of five and six inches.1711Addison Spect. No. 102 ⁋6 It shall make a Report like a Pocket-Pistol.1784–5Chron. in Ann. Reg. 323/2 At Dover..the large gun, well known by the name of Queen Anne's pocket pistol.1850in McCrie Mem. Sir A. Agnew xi. (1852) 277 It [a pamphlet] served him as a pocket-pistol on such occasions.
2. humorous. A pocket spirit-flask.
c1730Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (1818) I. 298, I had always on my journeys a pocket-pistol loaded with brandy mixed with juice of lemon.1864Babbage Passages Life Philos. xvi. 218 A glass bottle enclosed in a leather case, commonly called a pocket-pistol.1882McQueen in Macm. Mag. XLVI. 162 The rests had been frequent on the road, as had also been the applications to the pocket-pistols.

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