eOE tr. Orosius (BL Add.) (1980) vi. xxxi. 150 Hi hiene nieddon to leornunga, þeh he gewintred wære.
eOE (Corpus Cambr. 173) xxxviii. 106 Healden þa mægas þone frumstol, oð ðæt hit [sc. bearn] gewintred sie.
OE Nativity of Virgin (Hatton) in B. Assmann (1889) 130 Ioseph wæs gehaten sum gewintrod [c1175 Bodl. 343 iwintred] man, eode þyder mid iungum mannum.
c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 746 Sannt iohan wass streonedd ta Þurrh faderr. & þurrh moderr. Þatt time þatt teȝȝ wærenn ba Winntrede menn. & alde.
1565 J. Shute in tr. P. Viret Ep. Ded. sig. A.ii When Hanniball a manifold wintered souldiour..had giuen eare a while to Phormion ye Philosopher.
1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier iv. i Backt With wintered souldiers vs'd to conquering [Fr. vne armee, De fieres legions à vaincre accoustumee].
1599 T. Nashe 66 The action is entred, the complaint of her [sc. a turbot's] wintered browes presented.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in (new ed.) II. 99 Such length of years..As the many-winter'd crow that leads the clanging rookery home.
1850 Mar. 74/1 Masses of masonry and sculptured stones half hidden beneath the roots of the many-wintered giants of the forest.
1906 C. J. Billson tr. Virgil I. iv. 179 As when the Alpine winds together strive Some many-wintered oak with veering blasts To uproot.
1916 B. Carman 27 With the many-wintered sun Shall thy hardy course be run.
2016 C. I. Downs i. 3 His old Nissan was a well-wintered trooper and it forged slowly through the punishing headwind and the un-cleared snow and ice.