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Delope (French for "throwing away") is the practice of deliberately wasting one's first shot in a pistol duel, an attempt to abort the conflict. The Irish code duello forbids the practice.
Hamilton reflexively pulled the trigger, which would not be an instance of deloping. Ron Chernow's 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton gives that version. According...
Agreeing to a signal was helpful. The Irish code banned the custom of deloping, or deliberately discharging one's firearm into the ground (usually well...
duel, without loss of either life or honor. However, doing so, known as deloping, could imply that one's opponent was not worth shooting. This practice...
wrote that Alexander Hamilton counseled his son, telling him to engage in a delope, throwing away his first shot. The duel took place in Paulus Hook, New Jersey...
North Rhine-Westphalia. Like in other towns, some great retail areas have deloped apart from the centre in the outer parts of the town. A very special problem...
Director, Best Actress (Nathalie Codsi), Rising Star Award (Huw Huckstep) Deloping (7mins, Dir. by Jon Olav Stokke) Frank (12mins, Dir. by Jesse Briton &...
blanks in his gun, but rather than attempt to kill his opponent, instead delopes and accidentally shoots the top off a bottle thirty yards away, an action...
1840, at Point Pleasant. When Haliburton missed with his shot, Howe "deloped" deliberately missing by firing his gun in the air. (The last lethal duel...
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