winter quarters
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.14 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A place where a wild animal goes to live or hibernate in the winter; hibernacle.
Example Sentences
- "In the fall, when the weather begins to get cool, the boll weevils leave the fields and go into winter quarters."
- "The present one shows a lot more interest in paved streets and granite skyscrapers than in the dry leaves and rocks and underbrush where foxes, wolves and weasels once had winter quarters."
- "In winter, evening bats depart for winter quarters and probably hibernate, although Lowery (1974) obtained records of active individuals in Louisiana in every month except February and December."
- "It is usually a month later than this, and sometimes two months later before we put them into winter quarters. Supposing some of our best bee-keepers place a few colonies in winter quarters now and just about the last couple of favorable days before they put the rest into winter quarters, place part of them out on their summer stands and give them a fly, leaving the remainder in, and see how they winter. We are pretty well convinced that we have been in the habit of setting bees into winter quarters too late."
- "The pullets should be carefully selected and placed in their winter quarters early in October."
- "Whenever possible, during the fall and winter, the cows with calves by their side and yearlings were cut out of the main herd and placed in winter quarters where they have been fed daily."