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winter road

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1801, OED Evaluation: Canad.

A road or a route used in winter when the ground is frozen or there is snow.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: ... load them onto sleighs, another team of horses will pull the one sleigh s-- on a little winter road to the mill. So it was a continuos operation ah and ah that's what he did. Interviewer: Now, you mentioned another ah term "winter road"? What's a winter road? I (inc). Speaker: Well, it's it's just just a road that is ah they cut it in the bush into where they're cutting logs so that they can haul them out ash-- and the only reason it's a winter road is because they don't have to worry about stumps or potholes or little anything 'cause it fills with snow and they pack it. Sometimes, they even used to draw water from the lake and put ice on it because they'd be drawing a big load of logs and they didn't want them f-- s-- breaking through the snow, so they would have a winter road, and it would- they could haul- you see some of these pictures, ah ah a great big sleigh with twenty logs on it, huge big things, and ah we got lots of pictures here for even our operation and so that's what a winter road would be.
A road or a route used in winter when the ground is frozen or there is snow.
ExampleMeaning
... he come up to Dane ... No roads. And walked from there, east to the road, that kind of winter road and well passed of all the summer if the weather's good. ... And ah into north of Larder-Lake where this mine was.
A road or a route used in winter when the ground is frozen or there is snow.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Went across over in there. ... And they would- used to use it- they called it a winter road. Interviewer: What did that mean? Speaker: They used the- the sleighs on it and the horses and-stuff-like-that. Interviewer: Ah only in winter? Speaker: I-don't-know. Why'd they call it a winter road (laughs)? Interviewer: Just call it the winter road. I just have never heard that term used before. Speaker: I suppose when it froze up, they could, you-know, take the sleds over it and-so-on. I don't know. Do you know why they called it the winter road? Interviewer: Winter road? Speaker 2: Well, I suppose they use it in the summer too- ... It was a, I guess more of a biking road than a- than a- for cars. ... Wagons and sleighs.
A road or a route used in winter when the ground is frozen or there is snow.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: And when ah- of course in the winter there road went anywhere across the fields you see because it was no- no road. It was a r-- a winter road for teams ... Interviewer: Now you did talk about winter roads and summer roads. So what- the winter roads, how did they make them? Speaker: Oh you just drove the horses through. That froze then.
A road or a route used in winter when the ground is frozen or there is snow.
ExampleMeaning
And in the winter time I was driving and I seen this- Mister-Monet coming with his big Lincoln. I- I seen he was going pretty fast, you-know, for winter roads so I pulled r-- I went right into the snowbank to- to give him room and get by. He put on his brakes and go right in the snowbank and hit me. Put my car out of commission for quite awhile ...
A road or a route used in winter when the ground is frozen or there is snow.
ExampleMeaning
But the way the picture was taken, it cut the horses off, they were on the (inc) sleigh, they must have been. Interviewer: So did you- did you go on a winter road down to here? Or the regular road? Speaker: There was some- some road off- off the main road. You just went up to the school and you left through it and you went in by where Kurt-Verhoeven lived. ... It come through the s-- the road- winter road comes through the swamp and out onto that road right- right near the corner. Of course there wasn't a corner there. The corner was out near Maberly then.
A road or a route used in winter when the ground is frozen or there is snow.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: ... I remember dad talking about they used to go through there with the horses ways when they drew wood down, but- ... Ah, it was a- that was like a winter road. Interviewer: Okay. And that would be like Crown land or something? Speaker: No, I don't think it was Crown land, it was- in those days they had winter roads across- that was just a kind of a common thing, like, they'd make a winter road through your place and that was just the shortest, best route to (inc) ...
A road or a route used in winter when the ground is frozen or there is snow.
ExampleMeaning
The snow is there and then- then you would have- well they referred to them as a- as a winter road. ... And even in the logging industry that was ah in- in the winter they made the winter roads out of snow. ... And, so it would fill everything in, freeze, and then we're good to go.
A road or a route used in winter when the ground is frozen or there is snow.