Converse of object

• carry: He also carried a revolver, presumably in case we came up against anyone who didn't smoke!

• load: We then searched the place where they had been, and the box containing eleven loaded revolvers and a quantity of ammunition was produced.

• draw: Before we could even draw a revolver he had died.

• fire: I only recall seeing the revolver fired on one other occasion.

• hold: In her right hand, pointed at his head, she held a revolver.

• put: He tried to put the revolver in his left side pocket, but I threw him down and took the revolver from him.

Preposition: in

• hand: I began to run at once toward this fire, revolver in hand.

Adjective modifier

• loaded: He just got fired from Alabama for bring a loaded revolver into class.

• single: Weapon No 215 Pistol Revolver Pin Fire An 11 mm, smoothbore double and single action revolver.

• old: Fletcher himself is then murdered, shot with an old army revolver.

• large: We have all got arms, even for me a large bore revolver.

• automatic: We note with considerable interest the appearance of a modern automatic revolver now in production in Germany.

Modifies a noun

• cannon: Revolver cannon have their own design problems, however.

• shot: In the course of the struggle a number of revolver shots were freely used.

• gun: Either has no magazine or has a fixed magazine not holding more than two cartridges and Is not a revolver gun.

• bullet: At one place we found some old revolver bullets which we tried to explode, fortunately without success.

Noun used with modifier

• caliber: The second choice was a major caliber revolver; the third a minor caliber self-loader, and in last place the minor caliber revolver.

• action: It was a double action revolver - it could either be fired with the hammer in the uncocked position or from the cocked position.

• service: George: It's a good old service revolver.

• police: PC Henry Thomas Brooks Killed by the accidental discharge of a police revolver issued to him at Chelsea Police Station.