[OE. winterdæʓ = MLG., MDu. winterdach, -dagh (Du. winterdag, G. wintertag), ON. vetrardagr.] A day in winter. (More commonly winters day: see WINTER sb.1 3 b.)
c. 888. Ælfred, Boeth., iv. § 1. Þu þe ðam winterdaʓum selest scorte tida.
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.
1721. Mortimer, Husb., II. 116. To expose them to the Sun in such Winter-days as prove clear.
172646. Thomson, Winter, 692. Behold, the joyous winter-days Frosty succeed.
1842. Dickens, Amer. Notes, vi. The darkest winter-day that ever glimmered.
a. 1876. Aird, Poet. Wks. (1878), 145. On gurly winter days.