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Winterize

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1938, OED Evaluation: Originally and chiefly U.S.

To adapt or prepare (something) for operation or use in cold weather.

ExampleMeaning
Most of the people only came down in the summer. I think some of them did winterize it a bit and stayed through- through the year. And then in the thirties, somewhere in the thirties, the city said, "We 're- we 're going to make it a park."
Prepared for winter
ExampleMeaning
Ah but we used to go up and stay overnight and all that at the cottage, but we don't anymore 'cause you have to pack all the stuff up and do that you-know. But our cottage is winterized, we probably could stay if we had to but we've never had really any desire to.
Prepared for winter
ExampleMeaning
Um oh I think it has decreased but it- it's because- I think it's because of um like the kids have got married and moved away, they're moving back and um I think- and a lot of- of people from the city are moving in like that have had cottages. They've winterized them and- yeah.
Prepared for winter
ExampleMeaning
Today they can't do that. All the- all the tourist-operators now have winterized cabins to accommodate cross-country skiing, the ski-dooers because they got the ski-doo trails across Canada now, but they're suffering. Yeah.
Prepared for winter
ExampleMeaning
So um, we ended up making the porch into Kristen's room but we knew we had to leave before winter 'cause the porch wasn't winterized. So ah, the landlord- I tried to get someone else to take over the house, but ah the landlord kept refusing the people that I was getting. So we had to move anyways. We ended up getting another house. So the landlord charged me another month.
Prepared for winter
ExampleMeaning
So it became fully winterized and- and ah their son bought the- bought the family house- kind-of-thing, down on Cashag down here so-
Prepared for winter
ExampleMeaning
No we bought that from my great uncle as a place to- to have a place to come to at the lake and- and there's three lots, one of which I have and so I- I basically kind of ah, set up shop there and winterized the place and- and lived there and started finding jobs and ah, working out and doing this-and-that and- and the first thing...
Prepared for winter
ExampleMeaning
You had to clear so much land and s-- plant so much wheat, so much potatoes, so much corn. And you had to build a- a cabin to live in. Winterized. That was the two things that they were- had to have done then before they would approve it.
Prepared for winter