winterly

comparative more winterly · superlative most winterly

1. Of or relating to winter.

   Synonyms: winter

2. Happening in winter.

   1 more example

   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.

   1914, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “The Knight’s Cross Signal Problem”, in Max Carrados

   Synonyms: winter

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

   Synonyms: winterish, wintery, wintry, hiemal