a city in Hampshire, in S England: cathedral; capital of the early Wessex kingdom and of medieval England.
a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
a city in N Virginia: Civil War battles 1862, 1864.
a city in E central Kentucky.
a town in NW Connecticut.
Computers. Winchester disk.
after Winchester, Hampshire
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Winchester Science Centre, in Hampshire, has now created a play zone themed on the local landscape in the hope children will connect with the environments into adulthood.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
A full inquest into Henry Nowak's death is due to be held in Winchester next year.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
A jury of seven women and five men found him not guilty of all counts at Winchester Crown Court earlier, following 40 hours of deliberations.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
Nine-month-old Samba has been on the run for more than a week after escaping from Marwell Zoo near Winchester, a day after arriving from Suffolk.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
Sarah Winchester was famously convinced that spirits cursed her family and that if she kept building staircases that led to nothing, the confused ghosts wouldn't kill her.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
Havin' conclooded this yere salootatory, Miss Bark, givin' a coquettish flourish to her 68 winchester, goes trapsein' over to the O. K. Restauraw, leavin' us––as the story-writer puts it––glooed to the spot.
From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by Dunton, W. Herbert
I happened to have my winchester near at hand.
From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Collins, Dennis
I returned to the tent for my winchester, hoping to get a shot at him, but it was of no use, he had gone away.
From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Collins, Dennis
After bidding everybody in sight adieu he rode slowly towards the setting sun, the winchester still gripped in his right hand.
From A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life by Siringo, Chas. A.
"I takes it," he says, when he's able to command his feelin's, "that you declines them proffers with your winchester at the time when made."
From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by Dunton, W. Herbert
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