REVOLVER

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets)

Synonyms:

revolver; six-gun; six-shooter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("revolver" is a kind of...):

handgun; pistol; shooting iron; side arm (a firearm that is held and fired with one hand)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "revolver"):

Colt (a kind of revolver)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A door consisting of four orthogonal partitions that rotate about a central pivot; a door designed to equalize the air pressure in tall buildings

Synonyms:

revolver; revolving door

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("revolver" is a kind of...):

door (a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle)

Credits

Context examples:

The doctors say that it is all up with the old dear unless some food is got into him, but as he lies in bed with a revolver on his coverlet, and swears he will put six of the best through anyone that comes near him, there's been a bit of a strike among the serving-men.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He saw himself, stripped to the waist, with naked fists, fighting his great fight with Liverpool Red in the forecastle of the Susquehanna; and he saw the bloody deck of the John Rogers, that gray morning of attempted mutiny, the mate kicking in death- throes on the main-hatch, the revolver in the old man's hand spitting fire and smoke, the men with passion-wrenched faces, of brutes screaming vile blasphemies and falling about him—and then he returned to the central scene, calm and clean in the steadfast light, where Ruth sat and talked with him amid books and paintings; and he saw the grand piano upon which she would later play to him; and he heard the echoes of his own selected and correct words, But then, may I not be peculiarly constituted to write?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He opened the table-drawer as he spoke, and I noticed that he slipped his revolver into his pocket.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The revolver shots had roused the household.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"God knows I don't want to kill him or have him killed," Scott answered, putting away the revolver.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Sometimes, on trail, she makes practice with revolver. I laugh.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The wretch sank into a chair, paralysed at the sight of my revolver.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I stole into his state-room and possessed myself of his revolvers.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Hal was a youngster of nineteen or twenty, with a big Colt’s revolver and a hunting-knife strapped about him on a belt that fairly bristled with cartridges.