Meaning of Winchester | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Winchester rifle, typically a lever-action repeater.
2. A city in and the county town of Hampshire, England.
3. A local government district with borough status in Hampshire; in full, the City of Winchester.
4. A bottle holding a Winchester quart.
5. Ellipsis of Winchester College, a prestigious public school in Winchester.
   UK, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
6. A hard disk.
   dated
7. Any of the towns named after it, including:
8. A number of places in the United States:
9. A census-designated place in Riverside County, California.
10. A city, the county seat of Scott County, Illinois.
11. Out of ordinance.
12. A city in White River Township, the county seat of Randolph County, Indiana.
13. An unincorporated community in Van Buren County, Iowa.
14. A home rule city, the county seat of Clark County, Kentucky.
15. A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
16. A township in Norman County, Minnesota, named after Winchester, Iowa.
17. A census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada.
18. A township and village therein, in Adams County, Ohio, named after Winchester, Virginia.
19. An unincorporated community in Bloomfield Township, Jackson County, Ohio.
20. A ghost town in Worthington Township, Richland County, Ohio.
21. A city, the county seat of Franklin County, Tennessee.
22. A city, the county seat of Frederick County, Virginia.
23. A former rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada, now part of Deloraine-Winchester.
24. A village in North Dundas township, eastern Ontario, Canada.
25. A small town in Timaru district, Canterbury, New Zealand.
26. A habitational surname from Old English.

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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

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