horse pistol

1. 1.

   a large pistol (usually in a holster) formerly carried by horsemen

   Synonymshorse-pistol

   Broaderpistol

Questions about horse pistol

What does horse pistol mean?

horse pistol means "a large pistol (usually in a holster) formerly carried by horsemen".

What is another word for horse pistol?

Close synonyms include horse-pistol. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is horse pistol a common word?

horse pistol is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.