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While in "hyvernements," or winter quarters, and on the long forest marches, the allowance of food per day, for a winterer, was one quart of corn and two ounces of tallow.
From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
"What were you saying about your hard luck?" and he turned to the northern winterer again.
From Lords of the North by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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 Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
"You don't say they're sending another lot of men to the Athabasca!" exclaimed the winterer.
From Lords of the North by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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 Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
