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Winchester rifle
noun
- a type of magazine rifle, first made in about 1866.
Winchester rifle
noun
- a breech-loading lever-action repeating rifle with a tubular magazine under the barrel Often shortened toWinchester
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Origin of Winchester rifle1
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Example Sentences
A Winchester rifle hung in a leather scabbard on the kitchen wall, and Limber lifted it down.
One size had been fired from a Winchester rifle; the others, much more numerous, belonged to a Marlin.
I had a Winchester rifle that had sixteen loaded cartridges; I fired several shots at the Indians.
He was unable to recover the body of the Zanzibari, or his Winchester rifle.
The next thing, I put my Winchester rifle and revolver in the wagon and then trudged along the best I could.
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