winterly
adjEtymology From Middle English wynturlych, from Old English winterlice; equivalent to winter + -ly.
1
Of or relating to winter.
2
Happening in winter.
- One winterly day, about the year when you and I were concerned in being born, the engine-driver of a Scotch express received the ‘clear’ from a signal near a little Huntingdon station called Abbots Ripton. He went on and crashed into a goods train and into the thick of the smash a down express mowed its way.1913, Ernest Bramah, The Knight’s Cross Signal Problem:
3
Of weather, etc, characteristic of winter.
- If it be somerly weather till the Kalends of January, it will be winterly weather to the Kalends of May.1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 7:
- Derived terms
- winterliness