in-winterv.
/ˈɪnwɪntə/ transitive. To protect (animals, particularly sheep) by keeping them indoors during severe weather and providing food for them.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [verb (transitive)] > winter in or out
winter1440
rough1858
out-winter1930
in-winter1961
1961 2nd Rep. Hill Farming Res. Organisation 1958–61 25 Hoggs have been in-wintered experimentally in improvised cattle courts... In-wintered Blackface hoggs..thrived normally on diets of hay... Indoor wintering is quite satisfactory.
1965 M. M. Cooper & R. J. Thomas Profitable Sheep Farming viii. 69 The main interest today..is the inwintering of breeding ewes on lowland farms.
1965 M. M. Cooper & R. J. Thomas Profitable Sheep Farming viii. 70 A hundred six and seven-crop Mule ewes..were inwintered in a Dutch barn.
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in-ˈwintered adj.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [adjective] > (in-)wintered
wintering1626
in-wintered1971
1971 Farmer & Stockbreeder 16 Feb. 25/3 In-wintered ewes should also be dosed two weeks after being brought in.
in-ˈwintering n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > wintering in or out
wintering1477
winterage1589
out-wintering1927
in-wintering1962
1962 Times 26 Nov. 17/6 The in-wintering of in-lamb ewes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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