winterer
- a word derived from winter.
Example Sentences
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Why, Cameron," began a northern winterer a few places below me, "it's taken me three months fast travelling to come from McKenzie River to Fort William.
From Lords of the North by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
"What were you saying about your hard luck?" and he turned to the northern winterer again.
From Lords of the North by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
A more desolate existence than the life of a fur-trading winterer in the far north can scarcely be imagined.
From Lords of the North by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
The elder Stuart was a rollicking winterer from The Labrador, with the hail-fellow-well-met-air of an equal among the mercurial French-Canadians.
From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.
So "old" Hugh Glass was a leather-faced, leather-clad, whiskered veteran of probably not over forty years but of the right experience as a "hivernan" or "winterer."
From Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)
