What is the meaning of WINTER. Phrases containing WINTER
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The steel points fixed under the shoes of horses, in the winter, to prevent them from falling on the ice.
The field was not just the grass playing field, but anything green (apart from the walled shrubbery at our school which was out of bounds anyway). Every year around April you'd wait for the whisper to go around - "field!" - which meant the caretaker had decided we could go on the grass again. In a wet spring you might wait until late May, and Field was banned again by late October most years. Ditch, however, was out of bounds all year around, and thus the cool place to hide at all times. Going Ditch in winter was the ultimate in "hardness", although you always got found out because of the mud.
(Tip-Cat) a game played with flat-end sticks and a ball on the ice in winter
A corruption of linen and wool. Material made of linen and wool mixed, light or coarse stuff. "He gave them coats of linsey woolsey, which were good and warm for winter, and good and light for summer.
People who swim in winter regardless of weather and water temperature. see also Bondi Icebergs
old rubber boots cut at the ankle, used during the summer period (usually after the winter season, people would cut the legs of their boots at the ankle)
: A toughguy body boarder who hates surfers. Example: “Off The Wall was full of bitter boarders all winter.
1) v. to cause severe ecological damage to a trail, usually during the wet season. 2) adj. a damaged trail "That trail's really thrashed after last winter."
a youngster who has graduated in the school of winter experience thus: himself not knowing how severely frost could freeze and whiten his nose, his companions kept him in ignorance till he suffered the ordeal “unknowest.â€Â They enjoyed the joke at his expense, and surprised him by applying snow to the part. Then, with a clap on the back, told him he was a youngster no more but a whitenose
one who receives winter board (rations and quarters) against the promise of cash or service in the next fishing season.
woolen wristlets worn in the winter
to swamp a road or path is to build on with a bedding of boughs to be used in hayuling slide loads of wodd in winter
During the winter (when there is snow or ice on the ground), the action of tripping someone over and then getting as many people as possible to gather and kick as much snow/ice/slush over them as possible - or just kick them.
The act of taking a handful of snow and vigorously stuffing it and rubbing it into the face of someone. It is performed by first putting the victim into a side headlock. The verb form of this term is "to give (somebody) a whitewash". Obviously done only in the winter when there's ample snow on the ground.
A 'Meth' is a person of ugly/repulsive/freakish appearance. Derives from the word 'Meths' (Methylated Spirits), thought to be the favoured drink of Tramps (Hobo's) on cold winters nights.
the term applied to the young English and Irish apprentices to the fishery. They were generally engaged for two summers and the intervening winter for about 18 pounds, their keep and a pair of long boots or a small child
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v. i.
To pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in Florida.
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Having too rank or forward a growth for winter.
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A kind of speedwell (Veronica hederifolia) which spreads chiefly in winter.
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To have occasion for, as useful, proper, or requisite; to require; to need; as, in winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes.
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To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant.
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To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw.
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Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter.
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One of the stages in the life history of certain rusts (Uredinales), regarded at one time as a distinct genus. It is a summer stage preceding the teleutospore, or winter stage. See Uredinales, in the Supplement.
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To fallow or till in winter.
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A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.
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To kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled.
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A domestic animal two winters old.
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Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial.
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Winter time.
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Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news.
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