0 present participle of winter --
1 (especially of a bird) to spend the winter in a particular place: --
Five days passed before the ship could be rescued from this worrying situation and before the risk of an unanticipated wintering could be eliminated.
The wintering parties were to be largely composed of civilians.
Adults remain inside their cocoons in a dormant stage throughout the wintering period.
Selection and use of habitat of wintering migrants.
During that period, it was occupied twice by wintering parties and regularly received summer personnel.
In the second period four summer expeditions and one wintering expedition worked on the island between 1963 and 1971.
A second wintering was under no circumstances to be allowed.
During each wintering, tidal measurements would be made for many months, with comprehensive meteorological and astronomical observations.
