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winterer|ˈwɪntərə(r)|
[f. winter v. (or n.1) + -er1.]
One who winters, in various senses.
1. a. One who spends the winter in a specified place; a winter visitor or resident; spec. a servant of the Hudson's Bay Company who was employed in the far interior of N. America. Also applied to birds (spec. the jerfalcon: see quot. 1831).
1801A. Mackenzie Voy. Montreal Fur Trade p. xxviii, Those are called North Men or Winterers. 1831Swainson & Richardson Fauna Bor.-Amer. II. 27 The Jerfalcon is a constant resident in the Hudson's Bay territories, where it is known by the name of the ‘Speckled Partridge Hawk’, or by that of the ‘Winterer’. 1876Fortn. Rev. Mar. 363 Davos, with its five hundred winterers. 1882Standard 14 Apr. 6 Doubtless, the winterers in Smith's Sound..will have a curious tale to tell. 1923Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Mar. 176/3 The whinchat hardly deserves to be ranked as a regular winterer, even in Cornwall.
b. spec. An animal, as a horse, ox, or sheep, ‘kept to feed in a particular place during winter’ (Jam.). Sc.
1795G. Robertson Agric. Surv. Mid-Lothian 41 In farms where no winterers are kept, the dunghill is placed behind the stables, out of view. 1801Farmer's Mag. Aug. 251 Winterers, or straw-yard cattle, intended for next summer's grass. 1827Scott Two Drovers ii, If you let me have six stots for winterers.
c. A hibernating animal.
1930Observer 6 Apr. 24/2 Sudden warmth..may awake a winterer too precociously.
2. One who tends animals during winter.
1832Boston Her. 8 May 3/5 Graziers and winterers of stock. |