noun
Winchester
WIHNT-shehs-tuh
noun
1
A type of lever-action repeating rifle made by the Winchester company.
"The cowboy in the film carried an old Winchester."
2
An older term for a type of hard disk drive.
"Early PCs stored data on bulky Winchester disks."
How to Use Winchester
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishMost often refers to the classic lever-action rifle; less commonly, an old term for a computer hard drive.
Word Forms
Winchesters plural
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Etymology
The rifle is named after 19th-century American businessman Oliver Winchester; the computer hard disk term comes, in turn, from the rifle's name via an early IBM disk model nicknamed "Winchester".