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# revolver

«revolver» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small gun (a pistol) with a turning cylinder holding…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a revolver, revolvers)

### meaning for a pupil

A small gun (a pistol) with a turning cylinder holding several bullets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolver/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Met in history (Wild West, wars), detective stories and The Wind in the Willows, where Badger and the friends take weapons — pistols, cudgels and swords — to win back Toad Hall from the weasels. Safety: real guns are dangerous; if you ever see one, do not touch it, move away and tell an adult.

### examples

- The cowboy carried a revolver on his belt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolver/#x1)
- A revolver holds six bullets in a turning cylinder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolver/#x2)
- The detective found a revolver in the drawer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolver/#x3)
- Badger armed the friends with pistols and cudgels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolver/#x4)
- If you find a gun, don't touch it — tell an adult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolver/#x5)
- Police in some countries carry revolvers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolver/#x6)
- There they await the onslaught, the inexperienced ones clutching their revolvers and treading on twigs, but the old hands sleeping tranquilly until just before the dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolver/#x7)

### note

From «revolve» (to turn round), because the cylinder turns. Countable. Different from a rifle (long gun) and a pistol (a general word for a hand gun).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «revolver» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/revolver/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.