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  • verb Present participle of pistol.

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Examples

  • The "huge cove" with the red beard was presumably Chaplain George Smith, but Flashman is probably mistaken in describing him as "pistolling", since the Chaplain was foremost in the vital work of carrying ammunition.

    Watershed 2010

  • The "huge cove" with the red beard was presumably Chaplain George Smith, but Flashman is probably mistaken in describing him as "pistolling", since the Chaplain was foremost in the vital work of carrying ammunition.

    Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

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

    The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

  • They seized hold of an Englishman the other day, and were very nearly pistolling him.

    Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

  • A young man was instructed how to "make his head" early in life, and to acquire the gentle art of pistolling his friends, when now he would be studying Greek under

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Various

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

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

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

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

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

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

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

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

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

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

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