Winchester

proper noun

1. 1

   A city in and the county town of Hampshire, England. A local government district with borough status in Hampshire; in full, the City of Winchester.

2. 2

   Any of the towns named after it, including: A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place in Riverside County, California.

3. 3

   Any of the towns named after it, including: A number of places in the United States: A town in Litchfield County, Connecticut.

4. 4

   Any of the towns named after it, including: A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Scott County, Illinois.

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   Any of the towns named after it, including: A number of places in the United States: A city in White River Township, the county seat of Randolph County, Indiana.

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   Any of the towns named after it, including: A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Van Buren County, Iowa.

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   Any of the towns named after it, including: A number of places in the United States: A home rule city, the county seat of Clark County, Kentucky.

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   Any of the towns named after it, including: A number of places in the United States: A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

   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.

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   Any of the towns named after it, including: A number of places in the United States: A township in Norman County, Minnesota, named after Winchester, Iowa.

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    Any of the towns named after it, including: A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada.

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    Any of the towns named after it, including: A number of places in the United States: A town and census-designated place therein, in Cheshire County, New Hampshire.

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    Any of the towns named after it, including: A number of places in the United States: A township and village therein, in Adams County, Ohio, named after Winchester, Virginia.

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    Any of the towns named after it, including: A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Bloomfield Township, Jackson County, Ohio.

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    Any of the towns named after it, including: A number of places in the United States: A ghost town in Worthington Township, Richland County, Ohio.

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    Any of the towns named after it, including: A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Franklin County, Tennessee.

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    Any of the towns named after it, including: A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Frederick County, Virginia.

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    Any of the towns named after it, including: A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Frederick County, Virginia. The First, Second, or Third Battle of Winchester in the American Civil War.

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    Any of the towns named after it, including: A former rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada, now part of Deloraine-Winchester.

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    Any of the towns named after it, including: A village in North Dundas township, eastern Ontario, Canada.

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    Any of the towns named after it, including: A small town in Timaru district, Canterbury, New Zealand.

21. 21

    A habitational surname from Old English.

22. 22

    Variant of Winchester CollegeA city in and the county town of Hampshire, England. Ellipsis of Winchester College, a prestigious public school in Winchester.

noun

1. 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.

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

2. 2

   A bottle holding a Winchester quart.

3. 3

   datedA hard disk.

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

4. 4

   Out of ordinance.

Forms

plural

Winchesters