Winchester rifle

noun

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

Winchester rifle

noun

1. Often shortened to: Winchester. a breech-loading lever-action repeating rifle with a tubular magazine under the barrel

Word History and Origins

Origin of Winchester rifle¹

1870–75; named after D. F. Winchester (1810–80), American manufacturer

Word History and Origins

Origin of Winchester rifle¹

C19: named after O. F. Winchester (1810–80), US manufacturer

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.

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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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