Definition of summer
- v. - One who sums; one who casts up an account.
- n. - A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns,
piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a)
The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault.
(c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a
wall to a girder. Called also summertree.
- n. - The season of the year in which the sun shines most
directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.
- v. i. - To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to
summer in Switzerland.
- v. t. - To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the
summer; as, to summer stock.