Churchill heard noise from horse (6)
I believe the answer is:
winnie
'churchill' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'heard noise from horse' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'from' could be 'in' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'in' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for winnie that I've seen before include "Mandela's ex (goes with the half of 12)" , "8's first name" , "Pooh's first name" , "The Pooh" .)