α. late Middle English wyntering, 1500s winteryng, 1500s wynterynge, 1500s wynttering, 1500s–1600s winteringe, 1500s– wintering, 1800s winterin (Scottish).
β. 1500s wyntring, 1500s wyntryng, 1500s–1600s wintring.
winteringn.
/ˈwɪnt(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈwɪn(t)ərɪŋ/, /ˈwɪntrɪŋ/ I. The action of winter v. in various senses.† 2. Winter weather (of a certain kind). Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
1.
a. The keeping or tending of cattle, sheep, etc., during winter; provision of food and shelter for animals in winter.
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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
1477–8 in E. Hobhouse Churchwardens' Accts. (1890) 193 For wyntering and summering of the chyrche cowe, iijs.
1504 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 320 For wynttering of the comond bull' iijs. viijd.
1583 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 15 The wynterynge and sommerynge of a styrke.
1605 R. Dallington Suruey Great Dukes State Tuscany 6 For the Wintering of their Cattle they are sent in October from the Mountaines.
1617 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) II. 253 Winteringe of a mare at Copthurst, xs.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 171 Young, lean Cattel..may by their growth pay for their Wintering.
1794 A. Pringle Gen. View Agric. Westmoreland 24 Store-masters who have not upon their own farms pastures sufficient for the wintering of their young sheep.
1855 Poultry Chron. 2 415 The successful wintering of bees.
1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 123 The wintering of hill sheep.
1914 Gleanings Bee Culture 1 Feb. 670/1 The wintering of bees in the Northern States and Canada is undoubtedly one of the most important problems connected with beekeeping.
1961 2nd Rep. Hill Farming Res. Organisation 1958–61 25 In-wintered Blackface hoggs..thrived normally on diets of hay... Indoor wintering is quite satisfactory.
2016 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 23 Apr. 4 One of our big problems in any farming system is the wintering of stock because there's nothing to lift the nutrients.
b. Provision of food, clothing, or shelter for persons, esp. soldiers, in winter.Not always distinguishable from sense 3.
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the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > provision of means of support or livelihood > in winter
wintering1586
1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 158 If thou hast a shrewd wyfe, giue her as shrewde a wintring, and turne her off to hard meat.
c1595 First Pt. Reign Richard II (1929) iii. 46 We haue all need of some kynd winteringe we are besett..with many stormes.
1607 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Serres in tr. Gen. Inuentorie Hist. France ii. 836 No man of Iudgement..can with reason blame his Maiesties actions, nor his own, touching the lodging, and wintering of his army, conteyned in all militarie modestie.
1813 Morning Post 9 Nov. The French lines themselves, constructed on French ground, for the wintering of their army, were stormed and carried.
1864 C. F. Hall Life with Esquimaux II. xii. 187 He is already planning for the wintering of his men.
1991 C. McCullough Grass Crown vii. 568 He arrived in Capua to..make the necessary arrangements for the wintering of his armies.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [noun] > kinds of weather > a spell of a kind of > in winter
wintering1540
1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. xliiii When so euer the wynter is hote & moyst,..when that suche wynterynge [L. hiemes] chaunseth, the hote and moyste whether heateth and moisteth the womans bodye.
3. The action of spending the winter in a particular place; a stay or residence during winter.
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the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > winter > spending the winter
wintering1565
hiemation1656
hibernation1687
1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia v. f. 133 They were so well mynded toward Cicero and the people of Rome, that they woulde refuse nothing saue only their wintring among them [L. nisi hiberna], the whych custome they wold be loth should be continued.
a1593 C. Marlowe tr. Lucan First Bk. (1600) i. 303 Our wintering Vnder the Alpes [L. hiemes..sub Alpibus actae].
1621 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 240 The Red Sea intended for our shipps wintering.
a1674 J. Milton Brief Hist. Moscovia (1682) v. 75 Their two years wintring in Lapland.
1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxiii. 140 Whose Heart is set upon the Hope of her wintering with us in Town.
1789 Brit. Mercury 3 Jan. 17 They determined wintering in Snug Corner Cove..in preference to going to the Sandwich Islands.
1862 J. H. Bennet Mentone & Biarritz as Winter Climates (ed. 2) vi. 107 I had not seen the good results from wintering abroad that I have experienced..since.
1880 H. Seebohm Siberia in Europe xx. 247 How about the three months' night? Would that be no bar to the wintering of so many birds in the Arctic regions?
1904 Rec. Egyptian Govt. School of Med. 2 96 There is no mystic influence as regards a cure in merely ‘wintering’ in Egypt when that ‘wintering’ consists in staying in a city, with its street air and concentrated population.
1958 Science 3 Jan. 16/1 The first wintering of white men at Point Barrow in 1852.
1996 Jrnl. Exper. Biol. 199 53/1 The selection pressures that may favour wintering of continental blackcaps in Britain rather than in the western Mediterranean region.
2011 C. Isom-Verhaaren Allies with Infidel iv. 114 The wintering of the Ottoman fleet in the French port of Toulon.
II. Concrete senses.
4. Scottish.† b. An animal that is one year old; = winterling n. 2. See winter n.1 2, and cf. summering n.1 2b. Obsolete. rare.
a. An animal that is or has been kept over the winter, esp. one that has been wintered outdoors. Sc. National Dict. (at Winter) records this sense as still in use in Caithness and Moray in 1974.
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the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock > member of livestock > that's wintered in specific place
wintering1717
1717 in A. H. Millar Select. Sc. Forfeited Estates Papers (1909) Introd. p. xxix Winterings, 30 at 2s. 9⅓d. per Wintering.
1743 in J. E. Handley Agric. Revol. Scotl. (1963) 28 3 young swine, 87 capons, 93 hens, 6 winterings and 37 shearing dargs.
1824 Aberdeen Jrnl. 5 May (advt.) The farmers in the district are determined to bring their winterings to this Market for sale.
1867 Dundee Courier & Argus 8 Nov. (advt.) 30 one-year-old polled stots and queys, mostly home-bred; excellent winterings.
1873 J. Brown Round Table Club 33 I sel't my winterin's afore the price began to fa'.
1901 Scotsman 1 Apr. 9/2 To add to the anxieties of sheep-owners, the winterings are on the way from the low countries.
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the world > animals > family unit > [noun] > young animal > yearling
yearinga1464
yearling1465
twelvemonthing1551
year-old1583
winterling1782
wintering1825
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Winterin, Winterling.
5. Scottish. Land where livestock is or may be wintered. Also in plural.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > winter pasture
wintering1783
winter country1851
1783 Caledonian Mercury 7 Apr. (advt.) The lower grounds are warm and kindly for croft... They are remarkable safe winterings for black cattle.
1800 Aberdeen Jrnl. 21 July (advt.) To afford to each [farm] the proper proportions of upland summer pasture, and of safe lowland wintering, along the sea shore.
1819 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 422 Now it is certain, that the winterings might be very greatly improved by extensive planting.
1871 Trans. Highland & Agric. Soc. Scotl. 3 261 This plan we have often adopted at hogg winterings and elsewhere, when better apparatus could not be conveniently had.
1937 A. Fraser Sheep Farming iv. 46 The ewes can be helped if the hill is cleared as much and as early as possible..by getting the ewe hoggs to their wintering at the earliest possible date.
1978 Dumfries & Galloway Standard 21 Oct. 21/3 (advt.) Wintering wanted for 45 Blackface Ewe Lambs from November till 1st March 1979.
2012 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 19 Mar. 21 This is the time of year when ewe hoggs return from their winterings.
Compounds
C1. attributive (chiefly in sense 3), as wintering ground, wintering house, wintering place, etc.
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?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xxxviii. f. 52v Worthy men of his army..to be called togyder..from their wyntring places [L. ex hibernis].
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iv. iv. 28 Quhen Apollo list depart or ga Furth of hys wyntring realm of Lysya.
1578 W. B. tr. Appian of Alexandria Aunc. Hist. Romanes Warres ii. 185 They went both to their wintring harbours.
1611 in M. Christy Voy. L. Foxe & James (1894) II. 630 The certaine tyme of the Ship's comming owte of the wintring port, he remembreth not.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. x. §10. 122 The Inhabitants of the Countrie, through which they marched, had their wintering houses vnder ground.
1629 R. Le Grys tr. J. Barclay Argenis (new ed.) iv. 291 As in perpetuall wintering stations.
1780 W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discov. 254 This wintering place was observed to lie in 53° 29′ North latitude.
1798 W. Tomison Let. 18 July in Sask. Jrnls. in Publ. Hudson's Bay Rec. Soc. (1967) 26 137 I have eat nothing..but Pemmecan and have not anything to trust to till i come near the wintering Ground.
1817 J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 51 I set out..at sunrise, for the wintering house.
1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. lii. 149 The wintering post of Colonel Kearney.
1895–6 A. Hope Let. in B. Harper Kettle on Fuchsia (1967) 145 I began the winter with 20,000 sheep..on a block of wintering country, near Fairlie Creek.
1920 Boys' Life Jan. 14/1 A more or less stylish little city called San Sebastian, which is much used by native Floridians as a summer resort and by wealthy Northerners as a wintering place.
1977 Monitor (McAllen, Texas) 9 Jan. b 8/4 The request for Texas biologists to investigate the whitewing wintering grounds came from the International Whitewinged Dove Council.
2002 Calgary Herald (Nexis) 23 Nov. ts10 You immerse yourself in the era exploring the fur store, provisions stores, wintering house, apothecary, [etc.].
2012 Independent 3 May 22/3 Although all five [cuckoos] made it to their wintering grounds, one more bird came unstuck on the way back—cuckoo Martin, who had flown to Africa via Italy.
C2. † wintering meat n. Obsolete winter fodder.
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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > winter or summer fodder
stover1557
winter fodder1567
winterage1589
summering1605
wintering meat1606
winter feeda1722
1606–7 Act 4 James I c. 11 §1 in Statutes of Realm (1963) IV. ii. 1149 The Oxen and Kyne..must be sold awaye for wante of winteringe Meate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
winteringadj.
/ˈwɪnt(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈwɪn(t)ərɪŋ/, /ˈwɪntrɪŋ/ 1. poetic. Wintry.
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the world > time > period > year > season > [adjective] > of or relating to winter
wintryeOE
winterOE
winterlyOE
frostyc1430
brumala1522
hiemalc1560
wintering1591
winterish1610
wintereda1616
hiematical1631
hibernal1646
wintersome1840
mid-wintry1852
mid-winterly1892
1591 W. R. in Most Horrible Murther Iohn, Lord Bourgh sig. B3 If this wintering chilnes euer burst, A washing storme must waist the frozen crust.
1639 L. Lawrence tr. San Pedro de Diego Small Treat. betwixt Arnalte & Lucenda 1 Shee [sc. Nature] hath but once with this her Traine giv'n place To wintring Hyems.
1854 U.S. Rev. July 18 No forest, leafy and sublime, Our wintering sun can hope to shake abroad.
1865 A. C. Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon 268 As a windy and wintering moon Seen through blown cloud.
1876 A. C. Swinburne Erechtheus 732 Thicker set with fence of thorn-edged spears Than sands are whirled about the wintering beach.
1922 C. A. Smith Ebony & Crystal 116 All beneath a wintering sky Follow the wastrel butterfly.
2009 M. Jackson Palm at End of Mind i. 1 The rising sun is like a gobbet of molten glass burning through the wintering trees.
2. That passes the winter in a particular place. Applied esp. to cattle, sheep, etc., that are being tended in the winter, and to migratory animals.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [adjective] > (in-)wintered
wintering1626
in-wintered1971
the world > time > period > year > season > [adjective] > of or relating to winter > passing winter in particular place
wintering1626
1626 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia i. sig. A2 The Generall Draw out from every part of France at once His now dispers'd, and wintring Legions.
1659 W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida iii. i. 189 Wintring Scithians see The Sun hasts toward the Artick Pole.
1722 N. Amhurst Brit. Gen. 10 The wintering Army ceases from its Toil.
1794 A. Lowe Gen. View Agric. Berwick 34 Courtings, where young or wintering cattle lie..or courtings where young cattle are confined during the summer.
1808 J. C. Curwen Hints Econ. Feeding Stock 55 Feeding the wintering Highland cattle with them [sc. turnips].
1879 Bull. Nuttall Ornithol. Club 4 33 These wintering birds remained until the middle of March, and the regular migrants began to arrive April 2.
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Feb. 5/2 Competent scientific men..would be taken on board and left with the wintering party.
1929 Pop. Mech. Mar. 449/1 At times, the wintering cluster of bees gave off air that contained less water than the outside atmosphere.
1937 Life 8 Feb. 454/1 Twelve hayracks, like the one shown above, daily carry 24 tons of hay to the wintering cattle on the Belden ranch.
1994 Jrnl. Canad. Hist. Assoc. 115 The meeting then adjourned until May, when the various Indian chiefs and wintering Métis would be in the Colony.
2014 J. Al-Khalili & J. McFadden Life on Edge vi. 171 [They] could not identify the final destination of these wintering butterflies in the southern US states.
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