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En⋅field

  [en-feeld]
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1. a borough of Greater London, England. 261,900.
2. a town in N Connecticut. 42,695.
3. Enfield rifle.
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Enfield rifle

 
–noun
1. a single-shot, muzzleloading rifle, of .577 caliber, used by the British army in the Crimean War and in limited numbers by both sides in the American Civil War.
2. a bolt-action, breech-loading, .303-caliber magazine rifle introduced in Britain in 1902.
3. an American .30-caliber rifle used in World War I by U.S. troops, patterned after the British Enfield rifle.
Also called Enfield.

Origin:
named after Enfield, England, where it was first made
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En·field   (ěn'fēld')   
A town of northern Connecticut near the Massachusetts border. It was settled c. 1680 as part of Massachusetts and annexed by Connecticut in 1749. Population: 45,200.
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Enfield 
type of rifle, 1854, named for government works in Enfield, Middlesex, England, where it was manufactured.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Enfield

outer borough of London, on its northern perimeter, in the historic county of Middlesex. The eastern part of the borough lies in the valley of the River Lea; the western part is higher and includes the undulating farmland and parkland of Enfield Chase in London's Green Belt. Enfield borough is composed of such areas and historic towns as (from north to south) Botany Bay, Clayhill, Bulls Cross, Hadley Wood, Forty Hill, Enfield Wash, Chase Side, Brimsdown, Enfield, Cockfosters (in part), Ponders End, Bush Hill, Southgate (in part), Winchmore Hill, Lower Edmonton, Palmers Green, New Southgate, Upper Edmonton, and Bowes Park (in part). The borough was formed in 1965 by the amalgamation of the former boroughs of Enfield, Edmonton, and Southgate.

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