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wintering house Fur Trade, Hist. 
a trading post used only in winter.
See also: winter post
- 1806 (1897) "We . . . came to the old wintering houses of 1801-02, at the White Mud."
- 1850 Other traders have wintering-houses in this neighbourhood, on the west side of a low promontory, from ten to thirteen miles long.
- 1934 . . . at holiday festivities held in wintering houses in the heart of the Indian country.
- 1806 (1897) "We . . . came to the old wintering houses of 1801-02, at the White Mud."