Winchester

From Middle English Wynchester, Winchestre, from Old English Wintanceastre, from Latin Venta Belgarum (“Venta of the Belgae”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Celtic *wentā (“town, place”), Proto-Indo-European *h₁wen- (“place (?)”) + Old English ceastre, from Latin castra (“camp”).

Winchester

1. A city and the county town of Hampshire, England.
   1. The City of Winchester, a local government district in Hampshire
2. Any of the towns named after it, including:
   1. a city in Illinois, USA, and the county seat of Scott County.
   2. a home rule-class city in Kentucky, USA, and county seat of Clark County.
   3. a city in Tennessee, USA, and the county seat of Franklin County.
   4. a city in Virginia, USA, and county seat of Frederick County.
3. A habitational surname​.

• Wykehamist

Winchester (plural Winchesters)

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.

   • 2008, James M. Smallwood, The Feud That Wasn't, page 167:

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

2. A bottle holding a Winchester quart.
3. (computing, dated) A hard disk.
   • 1984, PC Mag (volume 3, number 2, 7 February 1984, page 234)

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

• Win

• Hungarian: vincseszter
• Russian: винчестер

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