pistol

pistolet

Petite arme à feu que l’on peut tenir et utiliser d’une seule main.

En anglais simple : A small gun that you can hold and fire with one hand.

• He carried a pistol.
• The officer put her pistol back in its holster.
• Someone fired a pistol outside the building.

Synonymes : handgun

Expressions courantes : a loaded pistol, fire a pistol, carry a pistol

pistolet

Arme de poing dont la cartouche se trouve dans une chambre fixe reliée au canon.

En anglais simple : A handgun whose bullet sits in a fixed chamber joined to the tube it travels through.

• This pistol has a fixed chamber.
• Unlike a revolver, the pistol holds its ammunition in a magazine.
• The instructor explained how the pistol’s chamber connects to its barrel.

Expressions courantes : a semiautomatic pistol, pistol barrel, pistol chamber