Meanings
noun
alternative wood-seer · alternative woodsere
- obsoleteThe winter.
From Maie til October leaue cropping, for why? in wood sere, whatsoeuer thou croppest wil dy
1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC
Origin
wood + sere. So called because winter is when there is no sap in the tree
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