Pistol
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - pistol
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- pistol
- Add: (1) an epistle, letter :-- Hieronimus áwrát ǽnne pistol be forðsíðe þǽre eádigan Marian tó sumum hálgan mǽdene . . . Hé dihte þisne pistol tó Paulam, Hml. Th. i. 436, 6-21. Wið útsihte; þysne pistol se ængel bróhte tó Róme þá hý wǽran mid útsihte micclum geswæncte, Lch. iii. 66, 5. (2) an epistle of the New Testament :-- Swá swá se apostol Petrus on his pistole áwrát, Hm. A. 52, 51.