wintersome

noun, adj — 2 senses

wintersome

noun

1

Archaic A crop, a kind of sweet sorghum.

Maize and wintersome both yield large quantities of material which may be easily stored in the form of silage.1941, Rhodesia Agricultural Journal, page 255:

wintersome

adj

1

Literary, Rare Wintry.

The fourteenth of February in London was quite as black, and cold, and as wintersome as it was at Allington, and was, perhaps, somewhat more melancholy in its coldness.2008, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, page 321:

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