Winchester

1. A city in and the county town of Hampshire, England.
   1. A local government district with borough status in Hampshire; in full, the City of Winchester.
   2. UKabbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Winchester College, a prestigious public school in Winchester.
2. Any of the towns named after it, including:
   1. A census-designated place in Riverside County, California.
   2. A town in Litchfield County, Connecticut.
   3. A city, the county seat of Scott County, Illinois.
   4. A city in White River Township, the county seat of Randolph County, Indiana.
   5. An unincorporated community in Van Buren County, Iowa.
   6. A home rule city, the county seat of Clark County, Kentucky.
   7. 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.

      2025 January 22, Nick Stoico, “Newton city council approves generational tobacco ban, joining other Mass. towns”, in Boston Globe, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2025

   8. A township in Norman County, Minnesota, named after Winchester, Iowa.
   9. A census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada.
   10. A town and census-designated place therein, in Cheshire County, New Hampshire.
   11. A township and village therein, in Adams County, Ohio, named after Winchester, Virginia.
   12. An unincorporated community in Bloomfield Township, Jackson County, Ohio.
   13. A ghost town in Worthington Township, Richland County, Ohio.
   14. A city, the county seat of Franklin County, Tennessee.
   15. An independent city, the county seat of Frederick County, Virginia.
   16. The First, Second, or Third Battle of Winchester in the American Civil War.
   17. A former rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada, now part of Deloraine-Winchester.
   18. A village in North Dundas township, eastern Ontario, Canada.
   19. A small town in Timaru district, Canterbury, New Zealand.
3. A habitational surname from Old English.

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.

   1 more example

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

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

   Synonyms: Win

2. A bottle holding a Winchester quart.
3. datedcomputingA hard disk.

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

   1984 February 7, PC Mag, volume 3, number 2, page 234

   Synonyms: Winchester disk

4. aeronauticsOut of ordinance.