Sentence:  She 'd found one and she had n't said a word while Big Hans and I had hunted and hunted as we always did all winter , every <WSD>winter</WSD> since the spring that Hans had come and I had looked in the privy and found the first one . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox