See Also: Kaiko - Martial Arts(gambling)
gambling(encyclopedia)
Gambling(law)
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pistol(encyclopedia)
pistol(medicine)

Kaiko - Martial Arts (gambling) and pistol (medicine)


Kaiko - Martial Arts (gambling)


(Japanese) The name of a very ancient Chinese Martial Art. This Martial Art was practised at the time of the Prince Dschingis Khan. It contains mongolian wrestling techniques.

pistol (medicine)


pistol


The smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one hand, now of many patterns, and bearing a great variety of names. Pistol carbine, a firearm with a removable but-piece, and thus capable of being used either as a pistol or a carbine.

<chemistry> Pistol pipe, a pipe in which the blast for a furnace is heated, resembling a pistol in form. Pistol shot. The discharge of a pistol. The distance to which a pistol can propel a ball.

Origin: F. Pistole, pistolet, It. Pistola; prob. From a form Pistola, for Pistoja, a town in Italy where pistols were first made. Cf. Pistole.

Source: Websters Dictionary