Word Confusion: Winter vs Wintery / Wintry vs Winterly

Plural for the noun: winters
Gerund: wintering

Third person present verb: winters
Past tense or past participle: wintered
Present participle: wintering

Relating to or occurring in winter

Grown during the season of winter

Noun:
[Sometimes capitalized] The coldest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from December to February and in the southern hemisphere from June to August

• [Astronomy] The period from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox
• [Literary; winters) Years

A period of time characterized by coldness, misery, barrenness, or death

• A time of decline, decay, etc.

Verb, intransitive:
[With adverbial of place; especially of a bird] To spend the winter in a particular place

To feed in winter (followed by on)

Verb, transitive:
To lodge, keep, or care for during the winter

Resembling winter weather

• Having snow, frost, cold, storms, etc.

• Hibernal

Characteristic of winter

• Wintry

Winter wheat needs to go through a period of cold temperatures to produce seed.

Rye, buckwheat, and hairy vetch make good winter cover crops.

A family of Kazakh herders decided to take their camels, sheep, cattle, and horses to winter pasture.

The soldiers are in their winter quarters.

Noun:
The Winter Circle is made up of stars from six constellations, including Orion, Taurus, Gemini, Canis Minor, and Canis Major.

The tree has a good crop of berries in winter.

She loves to stay home during the winter months.

I do love blizzards a couple of times a winter.

There is a touch of winter in the air.

The Great Square of Pegasus is a beautiful sight seen in early winter.

He seemed a hundred winters old.

“In addition, the atmospheric circulation anomalies also exhibit the winter-winter recurrence at the mid–high latitude of the Northern Hemisphere, which is mainly located in eastern Asia, the central North Pacific, and the North Atlantic” (Zhao).

Now begins our winter of discontent.

Verb, intransitive:
Many birds wintered in the Caribbean.

His parents wintered in Arizona.

The deer were wintering on cedar bark.

My rosemary is wintering indoors.

Verb, transitive:
He’s wintering the sheep in the stable.

“But even experienced rowers will learn lots on tours of the Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge, where visitors can see wintering sandhill cranes, and on journeys down the Chickamauga Dam Lock” (Chen).

Farmers winter their cattle on hay.

Delicate plants must be wintered under cover.

His eyes were decidedly wintry.

That morning was filled with wintry skies and wintry blasts, and I was grateful for my hat and gloves.

We had wintry weather well into May last year.

Frost and extreme winterly conditions will spread across the East Coast by morning.

“Simon Day’s lighting was particularly effective in the shadowy and winterly Act III” (Martens).

Most of us imagine Siberia as the most winterly of lands.

Short days and long nights combine with freezing temperatures for winterly life.

Ah! there is the garden I used to enjoy, it looks very winterly now, and I shall never walk there again; but I am quite satisfied.