Winchester

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Winchester /ˈwɪntʃɪstə/

▶noun

• 1 (also Winchester rifle) trademark a breech-loading side-action repeating rifle.

• 2 (also Winchester disk or drive) Computing a disk drive in a sealed unit containing a high-capacity hard disk and the read-write heads.

– origin sense 1 named after the American rifle manufacturer Oliver F. Winchester; sense 2 so named because its original numerical designation corresponded to the calibre of the rifle.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
winchester/ˈwɪntʃɪstə/

▶noun Brit. a large cylindrical bottle for liquids.

– origin C18: orig. applied to containers holding a bushel, gallon, or quart, according to an obsolete system of measurement with standards kept at Winchester in southern England.