winchester

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).

1. a breech-loading side-action repeating rifle.
2. 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.