[Cf. Du. winterkoren, G. winterkorn.] Corn sown in winter, or in autumn and remaining in the ground through the winter.
c. 1450. Godstow Reg., 351. On halfe acre of wyntur corne.
1523–34. Fitzherb., Husb., § 8. If thou sowe it with winter-corne, as whete or ry.
1577. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., I. 25 b. The Winter Corne when it is sowed before Winter, appeareth aboue the ground somtimes within a seuennight after.
1608. Willet, Hexapla Exod., 113. Our wheate and rie, which wee call winter corne.
1707. Mortimer, Husb., 60. These Lands are very subject to worms which destroys both the Corn and the Grass very much, especially the Winter-corn.
1764. Museum Rust., IV. 7. If it is to be winter corn, one ploughing more, which is the third only, makes it in fine order for the seed.
attrib. and Comb. a. 1450. Mankind, 54, in Macro Plays, 3. A wyntur corn-threscher.
1611. in G. A. Carthew, Hund. Launditch, III. (1879), 26. In the tyme of wyntercorne harvest.
