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comparative more winterly, superlative most winterly
Of or relating to winter. examples
Happening in winter. quotations examples
One winterly day, about the year when you and I were concerned in being born, the engine-driver of a Scotch express received the ‘clear’ from a signal near a little Huntingdon station called Abbots Ripton. He went on and crashed into a goods train and into the thick of the smash a down express mowed its way.
1913, Ernest Bramah, The Knight’s Cross Signal Problem
Of weather, etc, characteristic of winter. quotations examples
If it be somerly weather till the Kalends of January, it will be winterly weather to the Kalends of May.
1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 7