Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word PISTOLE

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Definitions of PISTOLE

1. A German surname from German.
2. (historical) A Spanish gold double-escudo coin of the mid-sixteenth century, or any of various gold coins derived from or based on this. [from 16th c.]
3. (by extension) A disc-shaped piece of chocolate, the size of a coin, designed for melting when cooking.

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Examples of Using PISTOLE in a Sentence

• The Pistole Parabellum or Parabellum-Pistole (Pistol Parabellum), commonly known as just the Luger or Luger P08, is a toggle-locked recoil-operated semi-automatic pistol.
• Carl Melvin went down with the , and Charles Pistole was killed at Tarawa while operating a landing craft.
• In the latter part of 1965, Flynn needed money, so he made two Spaghetti Westerns in Spain and Italy that were released in 1966: Sette Magnifiche Pistole (Seven Guns for Timothy) and Dos Pistolas Gemelas (Sharp-Shooting Twin Sisters) co-starring the Spanish twin performers Pili and Mili.
• The SIG P210 (Swiss Army designation Pistole 49, the civilian model was known as SP47/8 prior to 1957) is a locked breech self loading, semi-automatic pistol designed and manufactured in Neuhausen am Rheinfall (Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland) by SIG from 1948 to 2006.
• 35 Vis; German designation 9 mm Pistole 35(p), or simply the Radom in some English sources and Vis wz.
• It features a unique gas-delayed blowback system modeled on the Swiss Pistole 47 W+F (Waffenfabrik Bern) prototype pistol (and ultimately on the Barnitzke system first used in the Volkssturmgewehr 1-5), which used gas pressures from the ignited cartridge and fed them through a small port in the barrel (in front of the chamber) to retard the rearward motion of the slide.
• Pistole is the French name given to a Spanish gold coin in use from 1537; it was a doubloon or double escudo, the gold unit.
• While initially identical to the North German thaler before the 1750s, it was the only currency to maintain the gold standard of 5 thalers to a Friedrich d'or pistole from the 1750s until 1873, long after all other states adopted the Conventionsthaler.
• His other books include Il gioco degli immortali, Tette e pistole, Memorie di un cuoco di un bordello spaziale, Cronache non ufficiali di due spie italiane, Il Fascio sulle stelle di Benito Mussolini and Alienati, a novel about an inter-planetary convention of psychoanalysts.
• The 8-escudo piece (onza de oro) was initially known as a double doubloon, then as a quadruple pistole, but eventually gained fame as the Spanish doubloon.
• When the gold-silver ratio rose again, the pistole then traded at 5 thalers plus an agio or premium.
• Etienne Méhul : Le Chant du Départ (with Frédéric Vassar, René Massis, Brigitte Lafon, Philippe Jorquera, Antoine Normand, Philippe Pistole, Natalie Dessay) - Conductor : Claude Bardon.
• The original Drury Lane cast included Benjamin Johnson as Sir Fumbler Oldmode, Robert Wilks as Frederick, John Mills as William Queenlove, William Bowen as Monsieur de Pistole, Colley Cibber as Tom Pistole, William Pinkethman as Misterious Maggothead, Richard Cross as Major Bombard, William Bullock as Abram, Henrietta Moore as Lady Oldmode, Frances Maria Knight as Probleme and Anne Oldfield as Lucia.
• The pistole of 6 grams fine gold, together with double- and half-pistole coins, became (along with the ducat) the preferred gold currency in Northern Germany, with each pistole trading at five thalers plus a variable agio (premium) after gold prices rebounded in the second half of the 18th century.

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