Victa

/ (ˈvɪktə) /

noun

trademark Australian a type of rotary lawnmower first manufactured in 1952

Origin of Victa

C20: named after Mervyn Victor Richardson, who invented it

Words Nearby Victa

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How to use Victa in a sentence

The victorious cause pleased the gods, the vanquished one pleased Sieyès (Victa Catoni).
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII | Various
Vi Victa vis, vel potius oppressa virtute audacia est: and to the same purport, Muren.
Dderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes | Ludwig Dderlein
There remains the dignity of a hopeless cause—“sed Victa Catoni.”
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft | George Gissing
En ego Victa situ quam veri effeta senectusArma inter regum falsa formidine ludit:Respice ad hæc.
English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century | James Anthony Froude
Vetta was an uncommon Saxon name, and no other Vetta, son of Victa, was known in history.
Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) | Henry Laing Gordon

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