[OE. winterdæʓ = MLG., MDu. winterdach, -dagh (Du. winterdag, G. wintertag), ON. vetrardagr.] A day in winter. (More commonly winter’s day: see WINTER sb.1 3 b.)

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c. 888.  Ælfred, Boeth., iv. § 1. Þu þe ðam winterdaʓum selest scorte tida.

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c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, xxviii. (Margaret), 345. Eftyre sown þe blud fel Als clere of hyre as of a wel As dois watir one wyntir day.

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1721.  Mortimer, Husb., II. 116. To expose them to the Sun in such Winter-days as prove clear.

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1726–46.  Thomson, Winter, 692. Behold, the joyous winter-days Frosty succeed.

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1842.  Dickens, Amer. Notes, vi. The darkest winter-day that ever glimmered.

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a. 1876.  Aird, Poet. Wks. (1878), 145. On gurly winter days.

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