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WINCHESTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A shoulder rifle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("Winchester" is a kind of...):
rifle (a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore)
Domain usage:
trademark (a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A city in southern England; administrative center of Hampshire
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Meronyms (parts of "Winchester"):
Winchester College (the oldest English public school; located in Winchester)
Holonyms ("Winchester" is a part of...):
Hampshire (a county of southern England on the English Channel)
Context examples:
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.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles on the far side of Winchester.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“There are seven of the Winchester men, eleven seamen, your squire, young Master Terlake, and nine archers.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I shall go down to Hampshire quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester to-morrow.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Look to him! You shall be my witness. He shall see Winchester jail for this. See where he goes with my cloak under his arm!”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday to-morrow,” it said.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For this man is Peter Peterson, a very noted rieve, draw-latch, and murtherer, who has wrought much evil for many years in the parts about Winchester.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this morning, but I must be back before three o’clock, for Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the evening, so that I must look after the child.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To Winchester, Linn mart, Bristol fair, Stourbridge, and Bartholomew's in London Town.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a questionable one.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
