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UK
/ɹɪvˈɒlvɐ/
]
[ US /ɹɪˈvɑɫvɝ/ ]
[ US /ɹɪˈvɑɫvɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets)
- a door consisting of four orthogonal partitions that rotate about a central pivot; a door designed to equalize the air pressure in tall buildings
How To Use revolver In A Sentence
- Gough's songwriting draws influences from Radiohead and Revolver and Rubber Soul-era Beatles, but with a good deal of folk and a bit of hip-hop, soul and dub thrown in for good measure.
- Let's assume someone is loading the revolver properly with the hammer at its half-cock position.
- They lived for some days on the excellent flesh of the maskalonge, on clams from the beach -- enormous clams of delicious flavor -- on a new fruit with a pinkish meat, which grew abundantly in the thickets and somewhat resembled breadfruit; on wild asparagus-sprouts, and on the few squirrels that Stern was able to "pot" with his revolver from the shelter of the leafy little camping-place they had arranged near the river. Darkness and Dawn
- The 660 is a short light powerful rifle not much harder to carry than a hogleg revolver. Some Odds and Ends
- On Thursday, police say, 23-year-old Wellington Oliveira talked his way into his former elementary school in a working-class western outskirt of Rio de Janeiro and opened fire with at least one of two revolvers he carried. Brazil Mourns the 12 Killed by Gunman
- And so he had grown in the warmth of his parents 'love, trained in what we call outdoor sports, but which are life itself to the Arab, until at fourteen no one could surpass him in running or horsemanship or spear-throwing, whilst with rifle or revolver he could clip the hair off the top of a man's head, the which strenuous accomplishments he balanced in passing his leisure moments in the gentle arts of verse-making and even music, in spite of the latter being condemned by religion; also did he learn to converse in foreign tongues. Desert Love
- We were each armed with a Mississippi yager and two Colt's revolvers. The Life of Hon William F Cody
- Knowledgeable shootists realize the value of a large-frame revolver and have mourned the loss of this full figured six-gun ever since.
- His gut got the best of him, so he unstrapped his short-barrel .357 Magnum revolver, and proceeded slowly.
- The LP can be ordered for either autos or revolvers, with a straight drop or a slight cant.