chilblain

How To Use chilblain In A Sentence

• With Spartan fortitude he had to squeeze his chilblained feet into wet socks and soggy boots frozen solid.
• The rapid change in temperature can lead to chilblains and dry skin.
• January, February, and March bring a great cold, and inhumane conditions of food and weather for the girls - long marches to church in the blistering cold wind, swollen and flayed fingers and feet, and chilblains on the hands.
• His hands turned red and chilblained from the water into which the potatoes dropped. Son of a Witch
• Allen kept staring at Earl's sternum, bare; the young, healthy skin fogged with red chilblain under the clumsy coat. ABSOLUTE ZERO
• From the same cause, the captain himself and several of his people had their fingers and toes chilblained. Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
• Her burning throat was raw from hurling Christmas carols out against the keening wind in an effort to tempt passersby to purchase the rolls of music clutched in her chilblained fingers. A GIFT OF LOVE
• (_c_) Frequently the whole foot is like a big "chilblain" and is very hot, red and swollen. 1914
• her poor chilblained hands
• A few years back I ignored the need for winter socks and got a mild attack of chilblains, the first I've had since I was a child and, if I can so engineer it, the last I shall ever have.