winterern.
/ˈwɪnt(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈwɪn(t)ərər/, /ˈwɪntrər/ 1.
a. A person who spends the winter in a specified place; a winter visitor or resident.Formerly used spec. of North American fur trappers and traders who overwintered in the interior rather than returning to a trading post or settlement (now historical).In quot. 1635: (apparently) a person who has spent the winter on board ship.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > temporary inhabitant > [noun] > winter inhabitant
winterer1635
society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > trader in interior of North America
winterer1790
1635 L. Foxe North-west Fox sig. Gg3v With [the] ship..newly manned with fresh men, & untainted with skurvie, crampe or cold paines, but more and better able to performe, the enterprize, then the Winterer can be.
1766 H. Palliser Let. 15 Aug. in St. James's Chron. 30 Oct. If any such Winterers are met with there [sc. the coast of Labradore], they are immediately on Sight hereof to quit it.
1790 E. Umfreville Present State Hudson's Bay 144 They meet the winterers who are returning with furs traded in the course of the preceding winter.
1876 Fortn. Rev. Mar. 363 Davos, with its five hundred winterers.
1882 Standard 14 Apr. 6 Doubtless, the winterers in Smith's Sound..will have a curious tale to tell.
1900 A. C. Laut Lords of North xiv. 220 A more desolate existence than the life of a fur-trading winterer in the far north can scarcely be imagined.
1945 William & Mary Q. 2 327 Yearly winterers in Florida still write me asking for directions for side trips in Pennsylvania as they come north towards their New England homes.
1953 Beaver Dec. 50 The young recruits were called ‘Pork Eaters’ to distinguish them from the old Winterers, who feed chiefly on ‘Pemican’.
2002 W. S. Dunn Opening New Markets i. 20 Traders from Montreal went to Michilimackinac in June to meet winterers from the Indian villages.
2015 Daily Echo (Nexis) 22 Feb. After this busy period only 13 people, known as winterers, will remain on station [in Antarctica] for the eight months of winter.
b. spec. Chiefly Scottish in early use. An animal kept over the winter, esp. for fattening; (also) an animal pastured or fed in a particular place during winter. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > bedding down > one who
bedder1621
winterer1776
1776 Ld. Kames Gentleman Farmer i. ix. 191 The ordinary method to feed winterers is in a dung-yard with straw.
1789 Bath Chron. 31 Dec. Sheep that are fatted on..were always accounted tytheable, and so are beasts or sheep taken as winterers.
1827 W. Scott Two Drovers in Chron. Canongate 1st Ser. I. xiv. 313 If you let me have six stots for winterers.
1839 Blackburn Standard 30 Oct. Winterers, as store cattle are called,..will do well on straw, and pickings left by the stall-fed ones.
1872 Gardeners' Chron. 23 Mar. 408/1 The next class are crossbred or grey-faced..and, when strong and well-bred, are hardy, good winterers.
1901 Live Stock Jrnl. 12 Apr. 443/3 Polled cattle from well-known winterers, several lots being adapted for Christmas show purposes.
1921 Times 7 Nov. 18/6 At the market to-day there were 700 Irish stores on offer, mostly being good winterers.
1956 Southern Reporter June 6 The winterers will have fared quite well.
c. A migratory bird that appears in winter; formerly spec. (Canadian) the gyrfalcon, Falco rusticolus.
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the world > animals > by habits or actions > [noun] > migrating animal
seven sleepers1750
migrater1770
visitant1774
winterer1831
visiter1843
visitor1859
immigrant1880
1831 W. Swainson & J. Richardson Fauna Boreali-Americana II. 27 The Jerfalcon is a constant resident in the Hudson's Bay territories, where it is known by the name of the ‘Speckled Partridge Hawk’, or by that of the ‘Winterer’.
1923 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Mar. 176/3 The whinchat hardly deserves to be ranked as a regular winterer, even in Cornwall.
1977 A. J. Prater et al. Guide Identification & Ageing Holarctic Waders 86 Northern winterers moult August–December, so primaries are fresh in winter and slightly worn in spring.
2012 Auk 129 729/2 Annual survival rates of knots wintering in Florida were also similar to rates of knots staging at Delaware Bay, predominantly winterers from South America.
d. A hibernating animal. Now rare.
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the world > animals > by habits or actions > [noun] > hibernating animal
winter sleeper1600
seven sleeper1799
winterer1905
1905 Proc. U.S. National Mus. 1904–5 28 721 Many of the ‘winterers’ are still quite fat as late as March and April when shot or speared in their holes or caves.
1930 Observer 6 Apr. 24/2 Sudden warmth..may awake a winterer too precociously.
1947 Spectator 28 Mar. 337/2 The floods will have killed a good many winterers, perhaps chiefly bumble bees, which like a deep hole.
2. A person who keeps animals outdoors in winter. Also: a person who tends animals during winter. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > wintering in or out > one who
winterer1832
1832 Bristol Mercury 5 May Graziers and winterers of stock do not at present seem likely to realise a fair profit.
1874 J. G. McCoy Hist. Sketches Cattle Trade 220 Major Smith..was not only the first, but a persistent winterer of cattle.
1936 E. H. Carrier Pastoral Heritage Brit. xix. 249 The expensive dinner was paid for by the graziers, who believed it encouraged the winterers to give their best attention to the lambs.
1961 Montana 11 Index 1/1 Alsop, Tom, early winterer of cattle in Wyo[ming].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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