Winterly
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Of or relating to winter.
- 2 Happening in winter.
"One winterly day, about the year when you and I were concerned in being born, the engine-driver of a Scotch express received the ‘clear’ from a signal near a little Huntingdon station called Abbots Ripton. He went on and crashed into a goods train and into the thick of the smash a down express mowed its way."
- 3 Of weather, etc, characteristic of winter.
"If it be somerly weather till the Kalends of January, it will be winterly weather to the Kalends of May."
Example
More examples"One winterly day, about the year when you and I were concerned in being born, the engine-driver of a Scotch express received the ‘clear’ from a signal near a little Huntingdon station called Abbots Ripton. He went on and crashed into a goods train and into the thick of the smash a down express mowed its way."
Etymology
From Middle English wynturlych, from Old English winterlice; equivalent to winter + -ly.
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