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Winchester rifle

noun

  1. a type of magazine rifle, first made in about 1866.


Winchester rifle

noun

  1. a breech-loading lever-action repeating rifle with a tubular magazine under the barrel Often shortened toWinchester
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Winchester rifle1

1870–75; named after D. F. Winchester (1810–80), American manufacturer
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Winchester rifle1

C19: named after O. F. Winchester (1810–80), US manufacturer
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Sheriff Don Barnes — who’s about as liberal as a Winchester rifle and who has drastically increased the number of jail inmates his department turned over to immigration authorities — put out a news release this week asserting that his deputies “remain focused on the enforcement of state and local laws,” rather than joining Trump’s deportation posse.

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In Anthony Mann’s 1950 Western “Winchester ’73,” a rare and much-desired Winchester rifle brings misery and death to the unlucky souls who manage to bring it into their possession.

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When I told the Professor he shouted in glee like a schoolboy, and, after looking intently till a snow fall made sight impossible, he laid his Winchester rifle ready for use against the boulder at the opening of our shelter.

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She argued further that “a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.”

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The ad shows her firing a 12-gauge Weatherby shotgun used to hunt dove and quail, a .270 Winchester rifle for deer hunting, and “her favorite” .44 Magnum revolver.

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