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v.
spend the winter in the interior.
See: winterer(def. 2)
Quotations
1776
These Canoes it seems belonged to two French Men (new Adventurers this way), who had proposed to have Wintered with the rest. . . .
1803
I an assure you it is with great difficulty I can hold my pen, but I must tell you that the X.Y. sends in to the Nipigon this year, therefore, should I leave my bones there, I shall go to winter.
1918
Turning north by Beaver River, he built a fort at Lac La Biche and wintered.
1954
He had signed the North West Company agreements of 1802 and 1804, but I could find no information as to where he had wintered. . . .