wood-sere

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Etymology

wood +‎ sere. So called because winter is when there is no sap in the tree

Noun

wood-sere

  1. (obsolete) The winter.
    • 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:
      From Maie til October leaue cropping, for why?
      in wood sere, whatsoeuer thou croppest wil dy

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