pistoleer
(-ˈɪə(r))
[See -eer1 and cf. pistolier.]
One who uses or is skilled in the use of a pistol; a soldier armed with a pistol.
| 1832 Carlyle Misc., Boswell's Johnson (1857) III. 94 Is the Chalk-Farm Pistoleer inspired with any reasonable Belief and Determination? 1855 Prescott Philip II, i. vii, A corps of German pistoleers, of whom there was a body in the French service. 1883 American VII. 116 The first step..must be the condign punishment of the Danville pistoleers. |