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▪ I. wintering, vbl. n.|ˈwɪntərɪŋ|
[f. winter v. or n.1 + -ing1.]
I. The action of winter v. in various senses.
1. a. The keeping or tending of cattle, etc. during winter; provision of food and shelter for animals in winter.
1477[see summering vbl. n.1 1]. 1504Nottingham Rec. III. 320 For wynttering of the commond bull' iij s. viij d. 1583Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 15 The wynterynge and sommerynge of a styrke. 1617Ibid. 253 Winteringe of a mare at Copthurst, xs. 1707Mortimer Husb. 171 Young, lean Cattel..may by their growth pay for their Wintering. 1855Poultry Chron. II. 415 The successful wintering of bees. 1886C. Scott Sheep-Farming 123 The wintering of hill sheep.
†b. transf. or gen. Provision of food, clothing, or shelter for persons in winter. Obs.
1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 158 If thou hast a shrewd wyfe, giue her as shrewde a wintring, and turne her off to hard meat. c1590Trag. Rich. II. (1870) 43 We haue all need of some kynd winteringe. We are besett..with many stormes.
†2. Winter weather (of a certain kind). nonce-use.
1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde 89 When so euer the wynter is hote & moyst,..when that such wintering chaunseth, the hote & moyste whether heateth and moysteth the womans body.
3. The action of passing the winter in a particular place; a stay or residence during winter.
a1593Marlowe tr. Lucan i. 303 Our wintering Vnder the Alpes. 1621in Foster Engl. Factories Ind. (1906) 240 The Red Sea intended for our shipps wintering. a1674Milton Hist. Mosc. v. Wks. 1851 VIII. 505 Thir two years wintring in Lapland. 1740Richardson Pamela (1824) I. xxiii. 276 Whose heart is set upon the hope of her wintering with us in town. 1861J. H. Bennet Shores Mediterr. i. vi. (1875) 155, I had not seen the good results from wintering abroad that I have since experienced. 1887Spectator 8 Oct. 1340 In the Arctic seas, the art of wintering on the ice is so well understood.
II. Concrete senses.
4. = winterling. (See winter n.1 2, and cf. summering vbl. n.1 3 c.) Sc.
Cf. ON. vetrungr.
1717Forfeited Estates Papers (S.H.S. 1909) Introd. p. xxix, Winterings, 30 at 2s. 91/3d. per Wintering. 1825Jamieson, Winterin, Winterling.
5. An animal that is wintered in a particular place.
1901Scotsman 1 Apr. 9/2 To add to the anxieties of sheep-owners, the winterings are on the way from the low countries.
6. Land where livestock may be wintered.
1937A. Fraser Sheep Farming iv. 46 The ewes can be helped if the hill is cleared as much and as early as possible..by getting the ewe hoggs to their wintering at the earliest possible date. 1978Dumfries & Galloway Standard 21 Oct. 21/3 (Advt.), Wintering wanted for 45 Blackface Ewe Lambs from November till 1st March 1979.
III. 7. attrib., as (in sense 3) wintering-ground, † wintering-harbour (harbour n.1 2), wintering-house, wintering-place, wintering-region, wintering-station; (in sense 1) † wintering-meat (meat n. 1).
c1520Barclay Jugurth xxxviii. 52 b, Worthy men of his army..to be called togyder..from their wyntring places. 1600Holland Livy v. ii. 180 The Romane captaines..began to build wintring harbours. 1606–7Act 4 Jas. I c. 11 §1 The Oxen and Kyne..must be sold awaye for wante of winteringe Meate. 1611in Voy. L. Foxe & James (Hakl. Soc.) II. 630 The certaine tyme of the Ship's comming owte of the wintring port, he remembreth not. 1629Sir R. Le Grys tr. Barclay's Argenis 291 As in perpetuall wintering stations. 1780Coxe Russ. Discov. 254 This wintering place was observed to lie in 53° 29′ North latitude. 1805Z. M. Pike Jrnl. 15 Oct. in Acct. Expeditions Sources Mississippi (1810) i. 33 This day's march made me think seriously of our wintering ground. 1817J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 51, I set out..at sunrise, for the wintering house. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. II. lii. 149 The wintering post of Colonel Kearney. c1890R. Campbell in C. Wilson Campbell of Yukon (1970) xi. 104 Do away with a wintering ground which, from the starvation so frequently experienced there, our men hold in actual dread and abhorrence. 1977Monitor (McAllen, Texas) 9 Jan. b 8/4 The request for Texas biologists to investigate the whitewing wintering grounds came from the International Whitewinged Dove Council.
▪ II. ˈwintering, ppl. a.
[f. winter v. + -ing2.]
That winters, in various senses.
1. Passing the winter in a particular place: spec. of cattle, etc. that are being tended in the winter.
1808J. C. Curwen Feeding Stock 55 Feeding the wintering Highland cattle with them [sc. turnips]. 1876‘Ouida’ Winter City vii, The wintering-swallows had never been so fluttered. 1889Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Feb. 5/2 Competent scientific men..would be taken on board and left with the wintering party.
2. poet. used vaguely for ‘wintry’.
1865Swinburne Atalanta 268 As a windy and wintering moon Seen through blown cloud. 1876― Erechtheus 732 Thicker set with fence of thorn-edged spears Than sands are whirled about the wintering beach. |