Definition of "winterkilling" []

• Present participle of winterkill. (verb)

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• "To overcome this shortcoming, I bend down and peg to the ground, in the late fall, a few slim shoots with dormant catkins, so that the snow, or some other mulching material supplied when there is insufficient snow, will cover and protect the catkins from winterkilling."
• "Yields and winterkilling of filbert catkins, Orchard 16, 1935 1937,"