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Cold spell   /koʊld spɛl/   Listen
Cold spell

noun
1.
A spell of cold weather.  Synonym: cold snap.






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"Cold spell" Quotes from Famous Books



... an undertone, addressing his wife. "If it ain't a comfort to see the wrinkles on Rachel's face curvin' up instead of down. I'm scared to death that she'll go out some time in a cold spell when she's havin' one of them sympathetics of hers, and her face'll freeze that way. Well, Albert," turning to his grandson, "the colors'll be h'isted to the truck now instead of half-mast and life'll be somethin' besides one everlastin' 'last ...
— The Portygee • Joseph Crosby Lincoln

... Square. Freddie Rooke emerged, followed by Jill. While Freddie paid the driver, Jill sniffed the afternoon air happily. It had turned into a delightful day. A westerly breeze, springing up in the morning, had sent the thermometer up with a run and broken the cold spell which had been gripping London. It was one of those afternoons which intrude on the bleakness of winter with a false but none the less agreeable intimation that Spring is on its way. The sidewalks were wet underfoot, and ...
— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse

... ten o'clock, during the excessively cold spell near the end of November 1909, I paid a visit to some gipsies I knew at their camp. The men had already gone off for the day, but some of the women were there—a young married woman, two big girls, and six or seven children. It was ...
— A Shepherd's Life • W. H. Hudson

... been much complaint of soft corn in this section on account of planting foreign seed last spring, but it is all solid since the late cold spell. ...
— Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. - A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside • Various

... feeding and thriving on the mast, but before killing time we always baited them into the fields and finished their fattening with peas and corn. It was customary to wait until the beginning of winter, or about the second cold spell, to butcher, and at the time in question there were about fifty large hogs to kill. It was a gala event with us boys, the oldest of whom were allowed to shoot one or more with a rifle. The hogs had been tolled ...
— Reed Anthony, Cowman • Andy Adams



Words linked to "Cold spell" :   spell, cold snap, while, patch, piece



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