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Wintered

Winter \Win"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wintered; p. pr. & vb. n. Wintering.] To pass the winter; to hibernate; as, to winter in Florid

  1. Because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence.
    --Acts xxvii. 12.

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wintered

vb. (en-past of: winter)

Usage examples of "wintered".

Swine have been wintered on alfalfa hay without any grain supplement where the winters are mild, but they will fare much better with a grain supplement.

Aparhaso wintered in a thick-timbered valley, wooded down all its length with beech and birch and hemlock.

The Wintering Ground was empty and he could not tell me where the Commacht wintered.

Navaho squaw and one papoose or more, and sometimes the beehive-shaped hodags in which the Navahos wintered.

She was the only woman the tribune had heard Gaius Philippus praise, but when the legionaires had wintered at Aptos the veteran did nothing at all to let her know his admiration.

We wintered at a bend of the Brazos River, along with four other kindred clans.

The bits scattered along the regular route to the Catha Hills, where many dragons wintered.

They wintered in Dyfed, near Brechaniauc where Elphin’s mother, Medhir, had once had a kinsman and the name of Gwyddno Garanhir was remembered with honor.

While Assur and his legions wintered in Riehl, waiting for the snows to subside, Davieta had become her first true friend and confidante.

He marched south, pausing at Dundalk long enough to collect the regiments that had wintered over there, and then invaded Leinster at the head of thirty-six thousand men.

This horse probably had been left by some party of Ottawas, hunters who wintered or hunted in this quarter last fall or winter.