0 past simple and past participle of winter
1 (especially of a bird) to spend the winter in a particular place:
The incubation period starts in late winter or early spring, when wintered adults are exposed to generally increasing temperatures, which trigger their emergence.
Extracts from the log book of a whale ship which wintered in the ice.
Yet they must be sold because they cannot be wintered at home.
Why do they believe that the contiguous cull is necessary, especially where cattle are still being wintered in?
What was the total number of sheep wintered on the ground in 1917–18, and what were the losses by death?
Of these, only 1,500 cattle and 110,000 sheep were to be wintered.
The result is that the ewe lamb wintered lower down is better fed all the season.
Scots black-faced sheep are extremely hardy and during winter—not even excluding last winter, which was so abnormal—they have wintered extremely well.
