yeartide noun2 •(literary) A specific time of year; season.[…] And promised whatever the yeartides would bring To this wish of his friend he would fervently cling. — 1907 •(nonstandard, rare) A specific time each year; anniversary.A-dream, we rock at home. So, lasting-sweet is sleep: With sails forever furled. Forgot is all the world, And soft the yeartides creep: O sweet, O lasting sleep! — 1921 formsyeartides
