Winchester
• 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 (1810-80); sense 2 so named because its original numerical designation corresponded to the calibre of the rifle.
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