[Cf. ON. vetrartimi.] The season of winter.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. XIII. 189. With forste[s] With wyndes ne with wederes as in wynter-tyme.
c. 1400. Brut, ccxxiv. 291. He wente aȝen into Scotland in þe wynter tyme.
1523–34. Fitzherb., Husb., § 16. Yf the lande be falowed in wynter tyme, it is farre the worse.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., 631. áll Winter time almost it is continually cloudy and misty weather.
1716. [? Arbuthnot], Petit. Colliers, Swift’s Misc. 1732, III. 23. Warming of Cellars and Dressing of Suppers in the Winter-time.
1835. Dickens, Sk. Boz, Parish, v. If it’s winter time, they just give you fire enough to make you think you’d like more.
1896. Baden-Powell, Matabele Campaign, xiii. A pair of skates … which … came in useful when he got up to Kandahar in the winter-time.
