Word Meanings - WINTER-RIG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To fallow or till in winter.

Related words: (words related to WINTER-RIG)

• WINTER-BEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
• WINTER'S BARK
  The aromatic bark of tree 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.
• WINTERWEED
  A kind of speedwell which spreads chiefly in winter. Dr. Prior.
• WINTERY
  Wintry.
• FALLOWNESS
  A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. Bartlett.
• WINTER-GROUND
  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.
• WINTER-PROUD
  Having too rank or forward a growth for winter. When either corn is winter-proud, or other plants put forth and bud too early. Holland.
• WINTERKILL
  To kill by the cold, or exposure to the inclemency of winter; as, the wheat was winterkilled.
• WINTERGREEN
  A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the species of Pyrola which in America are called English wintergreen, and shin leaf In America, the name wintergreen is given
• WINTERLY
  Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news. Shak. The sir growing more winterly in the month of April. Camden.
• WINTERTIDE
  Winter time. Tennyson.
• FALLOW
  Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith.
• FALLOWIST
  One who favors the practice of fallowing land. Sinclair.
• WINTER
  OHG. wintar, G. winter, D. & Sw. vinter, Icel. vetr, Goth. wintrus; of uncertain origin; cf. Old Gallic vindo- white , OIr. find white. 1. The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the
• WINTER-RIG
  To fallow or till in winter.
• FALLOW DEER
  A European species of deer , 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.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• TWINTER
  A domestic animal two winters old.
• TRIFALLOW
  To plow the third time before sowing, as land. Mortimer.
• MIDWINTER
  The middle of winter. Dryden.
• BEWINTER
  To make wintry.
• TWIFALLOW
  To plow, or fallow, a second time (land that has been once fallowed).
• THRIFALLOW
  See TUSSER