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Winchester rifle
noun
- a type of magazine rifle, first made in about 1866.
Winchester rifle
noun
- a breech-loading lever-action repeating rifle with a tubular magazine under the barrel Often shortened toWinchester
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Winchester rifle1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Winchester rifle1
Example Sentences
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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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