| 单词 | to make winter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make (also take, have, etc.) winter 3. Scottish (chiefly north-eastern in later use). The last load of grain to be brought in from the harvest. Often in to make (also take, have, etc.) winter: to bring the last of the grain in; to finish the harvest. Now rare. ΚΠ 1794 Har'st Rig cxxxvi. 42 Now the Maiden has been win, And Winter is at last brought in. 1818 A. Fordyce Country Wedding 138 At harvest-home, when winter is brought in. 1868 G. Gall Diary (National Rec. Scotl. RH4/55) 1 Sept. We managed to make winter before night came. 1915 H. Beaton Benachie 122 Owing to early rising or working late, many a farmer ‘took winter’ sooner than it could have been possible for them otherwise. 1958 Bulletin (Glasgow) 1 Nov. Down the road, where our neighbours had ‘winter’ a week or two earlier, the potato gathering is proceeding in the cheerfullest fashion possible. 2005 A. Fenton Buchan Words & Ways Gloss. 149 Winter, to get, to have all of the harvest taken in and stacked. < as lemmas |
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