wintersome

English

Noun

wintersome (uncountable)

1. (archaic) A crop, a kind of sweet sorghum.
   • 1941, Rhodesia Agricultural Journal, page 255:

     Maize and wintersome both yield large quantities of material which may be easily stored in the form of silage.

Adjective

wintersome (not comparable)

1. (literary, rare) Wintry.
   • 2008, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, page 321:

     The fourteenth of February in London was quite as black, and cold, and as wintersome as it was at Allington, and was, perhaps, somewhat more melancholy in its coldness.