Winchester
Meaning of Winchester
- a breech-loading side-action repeating rifle.
- a disk drive in a sealed unit containing a high-capacity hard disk and the read-write heads.
from the name of name of Oliver F. Winchester (1810–80), the American manufacturer of the rifle. Winchester2 (sense 2) is so named because its original numerical designation corresponded to the calibre of the rifle.
noun
a large cylindrical bottle for holding liquids.
early 18th century: originally applied to containers holding a bushel, gallon, or quart, according to an obsolete system of measurement with standards kept at Winchester (see Winchester1).
Information about Winchester
- It is a name.
- The plural form of Winchester is: Winchesters.
- Languages in which Winchester is used:
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Hyphenation of Winchester
Winch-ester
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- Winchester is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Translation of Winchester
- German: Winchester
Anagrams of Winchester
Words that rhyme with Winchester
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