Word Meanings - WINTER-RIG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To fallow or till in winter.

• Winterkill
  To kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled.
• Winter-proud
  Having too rank or forward a growth for winter.
• Winter's bark
  The aromatic bark of tree (Drimys, / Drymis, Winteri) of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chili. It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577.
• Fallow deer
  A European species of deer (Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.
• Wintertide
  Winter time.
• Winterweed
  A kind of speedwell (Veronica hederifolia) which spreads chiefly in winter.
• WINTERBEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
• WINTERGROUND
  To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant. The ruddock would . . . bring thee all this, Yea, and furred moss besides, when flowers are none To winter-ground thy corse. Shak.

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