different between musket vs pistol

English

Alternative forms

• musquet

Etymology

First attested around 1210 as a surname, and later in the 1400s as a word for the sparrowhawk (Middle English forms: musket, muskett, muskete (“sparrow hawk”)), from Middle French mousquet, from Old Italian moschetto (a diminutive of mosca (“fly”), from Latin musca) used to refer initially to a sparrowhawk (given its small size or speckled appearance) and then a crossbow arrow and later a musket, adhering to a pattern of naming firearms and cannons after birds of prey and similar creatures (compare falcon, falconet), a sense which was also borrowed into French and then (around 1580) into English. Cognate to Spanish mosquete, Portuguese mosquete. Smoothbore firearms continued to be called muskets even as they switched from using matchlocks to flintlocks to percussion locks, but with the advent of rifled muskets, the word was finally displaced by rifle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?sk?t/, /?m?sk?t/

Noun

musket (plural muskets)

1. A kind of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army, originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted; ultimately superseded by the rifle.

   Soldier, soldier, won't you marry me, with your musket, fife and drum.

   Sam, Sam, pick up thy musket.

2. (falconry) A male Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus).

Derived terms

• musketeer

Related terms

• musketoon

Translations

See also

• musket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Danish

Etymology

From French mousquet (“musket”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /musk?t/, [mu?s???d?]

Noun

musket c (singular definite musketten, plural indefinite musketter)

1. musket
2. (dialectal) A firearm in general.

Inflection

Further reading

• musket on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?s?k?t/
• Hyphenation: mus?ket
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch musket.

Noun

musket n (plural musketten, diminutive musketje n)

1. musket
2. Obsolete spelling of mosket

Derived terms

• musketkogel
• musketloop

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

musket n (uncountable)

1. hundreds and thousands, nonpareils, tiny sprinkles

Derived terms

• musketflik
• musketzaad

Middle English

Alternative forms

• muskett, muskete, muskytte, moskett, muscet, muskyte

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Northern French mousket, borrowed itself from Italian moschetto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?musk?t/, /?muskit/

Noun

musket (plural musketes)

1. A sparrowhawk or musket.

Descendants

• English: musket

References

• “musket(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-03.

English

Etymology

Probably from Middle French pistole, which probably via Middle High German forms like pischulle from Czech píš?ala (“firearm”, literally “tube, pipe”), from Proto-Slavic *piš?al?, from *piskati, *piš?ati (“to squeak, whistle”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *p??k-.

Alternatively, from Middle English pistolet, from Middle French pistolet (“small firearm or small dagger”), from or related to Italian pistolese (“short dagger”), from Italian Pistoia (“a Tuscan town noted for its gunsmithing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?st?l/
• Rhymes: -?st?l

Noun

pistol (plural pistols)

1. A handgun, typically with a chamber integrated in the barrel, a semi-automatic action and a box magazine. [1570s]
2. The mechanical component of a fuse in a bomb or torpedo responsible for firing the detonator.
3. A creative and unpredictable jokester, a constant source of entertainment and surprises.
   • February 2012, Thomas Pugsley, Denial (episode) in Young Justice (TV series):

     KENT NELSON —Until my wife Inza convinced me there was more to life. Ah, she was a real pistol, that Inza.

   • 2012, Jimmy Correa, How My Prank Stories in ‘You Tube’ Made Me an Overnight Sensation, iUniverse, page 102:

     She features so many dance tunes and is a pistol with her sharp and witty remarks.

4. (Southern US) A small boy who is bright, alert and very active.
5. (American football) An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, but closer than in a shotgun formation, with a running back lined up behind him.

Usage notes

Shooters normally differentiate between a pistol and a revolver, which is named after its rotating chamber; however, in common usage, the word pistol is also imprecisely used to refer to any type of handgun.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pistol (third-person singular simple present pistols, present participle pistoling, simple past and past participle pistoled)

1. (transitive) To shoot (at) a target with a pistol.

See also

• derringer
• pistole
• gat
• rod

Further reading

• Pistol offense on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• pilots, postil, potlis, sploit, spoilt

References

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• piskot

Etymology

A minced oath of pisti.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pis?tol

Interjection

pistol

1. expressing anger, surprise, excitement, etc.

Danish

Etymology

From Middle French pistole or from German Pistole, either from Italian pistola or from Czech píš?ala (“whistle”), from Proto-Slavic *piš?al?, from *piskati, *piš?ati (“to squeak, whistle”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *p??k-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pisto?l/, [p?i?sd?o??l]
• Rhymes: -o?l

Noun

pistol c (singular definite pistolen, plural indefinite pistoler)

1. handgun, pistol

Inflection

See also

• pistol on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay pistol, from Dutch pistool. Ultimately from Czech píš?ala (“whistle”), from Proto-Slavic *piš?al?, from *piskati, *piš?ati (“to squeak, whistle”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *p??k-.

Noun

pistol (first-person possessive pistolku, second-person possessive pistolmu, third-person possessive pistolnya)

1. a pistol (gun)

Malay

Etymology

From Dutch pistool. Ultimately from Czech píš?ala (“whistle”), from Proto-Slavic *piš?al?, from *piskati, *piš?ati (“to squeak, whistle”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *p??k-.

Noun

pistol (plural pistol-pistol, informal 1st possessive pistolku, impolite 2nd possessive pistolmu, 3rd possessive pistolnya)

1. a pistol (gun, handheld short firearm weapon)

Further reading

• “pistol” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Czech píš?ala (“whistle, because of the shape”), via German Pistole

Noun

pistol m (definite singular pistolen, indefinite plural pistoler, definite plural pistolene)

1. a pistol (firearm)

References

• “pistol” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Czech píš?ala (“whistle”), via German Pistole

Noun

pistol m (definite singular pistolen, indefinite plural pistolar, definite plural pistolane)

1. a pistol (firearm)

References

• “pistol” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From Greek ??????? (pistóli)

Noun

pistol n (plural pistoale)

1. pistol

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Czech píš?ala (“whistle”), from Proto-Slavic *piš?al?, from *piskati, *piš?ati (“to squeak, whistle”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *p??k-.

Pronunciation

Noun

pistol c

1. a pistol (gun)

Declension

Related terms

See also

• revolver