winter-proud

English

Adjective

winter-proud (comparative more winter-proud, superlative most winter-proud)

  1. (archaic, agriculture) Having too strong or luxuriant a growth for winter.
    • 1847, The Farmer's Magazine:
      by some it [the wheat in the Weald]is considered to be too strong and forward, and therefore in danger of becoming winter proud
    • 1883 July, James Cheesman, “Selection in Grain-Growing”, in Popular Science Monthly:
      If winter wheat were all drilled by the 10th of September, the entire fall would be at the farmer's disposal for clearing the land and sowing spring crops early. The crop could not become winter-proud, or be laid by the summer rains. The harvest would be from two to three weeks earlier.

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