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Winchester

proper noun

  1. place name
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈwɪnt͡ʃɛstə(ɹ)/ / /ˈwɪnt͡ʃɪstə(ɹ)/

name

Etymology: From Middle English Wynchester, Winchestre, from Old English Wintanċeaster, from Latin Venta Belgārum (literally “Venta of the Belgae”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Celtic *wentā (“town, place”), Proto-Indo-European *h₁wen- (“place (?)”) + Old English ċeaster, from Latin castra (“camp”). The bottle is named for the former customary units of the English city. The rifle is named after American businessman Oliver Winchester (1810–1880). The computer disk is named for the rifle.

  1. A city in and the county town of Hampshire, England.
  2. A city in and the county town of Hampshire, England.
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    “Newton joins Brookline and a dozen other towns that have adopted similar bans, including Belchertown, Chelsea, Concord, Malden, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Melrose, Needham, Pelham, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, and Winchester, according to the state Department of Public Health.”

  10. Any of the towns named after it, including:
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  21. A habitational surname from Old English.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English Wynchester, Winchestre, from Old English Wintanċeaster, from Latin Venta Belgārum (literally “Venta of the Belgae”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Celtic *wentā (“town, place”), Proto-Indo-European *h₁wen- (“place (?)”) + Old English ċeaster, from Latin castra (“camp”). The bottle is named for the former customary units of the English city. The rifle is named after American businessman Oliver Winchester (1810–1880). The computer disk is named for the rifle.

  1. A Winchester rifle, typically a lever-action repeater.

    “H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines "Give me my express," I said, laying down the Winchester, and he handed it to me cocked.”

    “Almost simultaneously Jim Taylor and Kit Hunter shot at each other with Winchesters.”

  2. A bottle holding a Winchester quart.
  3. A hard disk.

    “And besides, Winchesters of the nonremovable sort work fine—why bother complicating things with cartridges[…]”

  4. Out of ordinance.