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ˈwinter-time
[Cf. ON. vetrartími.]
The season of winter.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xiii. 189 With forste[s] With wyndes ne with wederes as in wynter-tyme. c1400Brut ccxxiv. 291 He wente aȝen into Scotland in þe wynter tyme. 1523–34Fitzherb. Husb. §16 Yf the lande be falowed in wynter tyme, it is farre the worse. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. 631 All Winter time almost it is continually cloudy and misty weather. 1716[? Arbuthnot] Petit. Colliers Swift's Misc. 1732 III. 73 Warming of Cellars and Dressing of Suppers in the Winter-time. 1835Dickens Sk. Boz, Parish v, If it's winter time, they just give you fire enough to make you think you'd like more. 1896Baden-Powell Matabele Campaign xiii, A pair of skates..which..came in useful when he got up to Kandahar in the winter-time. |