What is "wintering"

Usage examples of "wintering".

A couple of months back, this tiny creature would have been wintering south of the Sahara.

Alfalfa hay is used with much advantage in wintering swine, especially brood sows.

Climates too cold for fruitage in the latter would be too cold for the uniformly safe wintering of crimson clover.

In 1825 he showed up in Santa Fe, translating for the Ute, but most often he wandered the land between the two Plattes, wintering sometimes at the Laramie, sometimes at Rattlesnake Buttes.

He could taste it, when he thought about it: the rich, fatty taste of ribs and haunches roasted over the embers of the campfire, the lodges of the Commacht all around, secure in the Wintering Ground.

Tachyn had not found them, or had gone to their own Wintering Ground as the White Grass Moon grew large in the sky.

He thought of Dohnse, stripped of all he owned and banished to the farther edges of the Wintering Ground for allowing Mor-rhyn to ride free.

The White Grass Moon was hidden behind the overcast that delivered the snow, and the lodges of the Tachyn huddled like some great crop of mushrooms over the Wintering Ground.

That, at least, was some consolation, for Racharran thought not even crazed Chakthi could persuade his warriors out from their Wintering Ground in such harsh weather.

You will go out tomorrow to the Commacht Wintering Ground and tell Racharran that I shall listen to all he has to say of how we fight these invaders.

I tell my Lakanti we must strike our lodges and quit the Wintering Ground?

Now take me to the Wintering Ground, else your conscience destroy the People.

And the crows that had circled the Wintering Ground with the rising of the sun had not followed them, but descended on the empty camp to pick over the leavings like the dark shadows of nightmares left behind.

When I came back into Ket-Ta-Witko, toward our Wintering Ground, I lost them.

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