a breech-loading lever-action repeating rifle with a tubular magazine under the barrel
Often shortened to: Winchester
Word origin
C19: named after O. F. Winchester (1810–80), US manufacturer
Winchester rifle in American English
noun
a type of magazine rifle, first made in about 1866
Word origin
[1870–75; named after D. F. Winchester (1810–80), American manufacturer]This word is first recorded in the period 1870–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Victorian, asymmetric, billing, linkage, washout