wintertide(Wintertide is a literary term for wintertime. The tide of wintertide is from an Old English word meaning time or hour. One stanza of the poem "Diffugere Nives," a poem of Horace translated by A. E. Housman, features the term. Thaw follows frost; hard on the heel of spring Treads summer sure to die, for hard on hers Comes autumn with his apples scattering; Then back to wintertide, when nothing stirs. JohnDerbyshire.com Kosarar); winter(hard winter, severe winter – холодная зима; the coldest season of the year • We often have snow in winter); wintertime
