litter
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.Examples: "Quen he had made me hale and fere"; "As pelows ben to chambres agreable So is harde strawe lytter for the stable."; "To place daily under those Animals... a sufficient quantity of fresh New Straw, well spread, which is call'd making of Litter."uncountable
2. (countable, obsolete) A bed, especially a pile of straw with blankets &c. used as a bed.Examples: "The traitours sought the Kyng... yn the withdrawyng chaumburs, yn the litters, undir the presses."; "Tho laye they doun on a lytier made of strawe, the foxe, hys wyf and hys chyldren wente alle to slepe."; "They slept upon litters of jungle grasses, and for covering at night Jane Porter had only an old ulster that belonged to Clayton, the same garment that he had worn upon that memorable trip to the Wisconsin woods."countableobsolete
3. (countable) A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.Examples: "... In a lytter made tho full royall..."; "Glou. There is a Litter ready, lay him in't, And driue toward Douer friend..."countable
4. (countable) A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.Examples: "He ordeyned lyttyers for the wounded knyghtes."Synonyms: stretcher, such a vehicle used for transporting the sick and injured, inclusive of designs carried in the handcountable
5. (countable) A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.Examples: "When they went out, they sat in litters, which were curtained."; ""The Chengtu revolutionaries were fantastically colourful in the Szechwanese manner—they costumed themselves as heroes of the stage and their energies were chiefly occupied in tying ropes across the main streets so that when Imperial officials rode by in their litters they would have to get down and crawl under, losing face."broadlycountable
6. (countable, obsolete) An act of giving birth to a number of live young at the same time.countableobsolete
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).Examples: "By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering."intransitive
2. (transitive) To scatter carelessly about.transitive
3. (transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.Examples: "Their Clamour, 'lighting from their Chairs, / Grew lowder, all the way up Stairs; / At Entrance louder, where they found, / The Room with Volumes litter'd round; [...]"transitive
4. (transitive) To give birth to, in the manner of animals.Examples: "We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us."; "The son that she did litter here, / A freckled whelp hagborn."transitive
5. (intransitive) To produce a litter of young.Examples: "A desert […] where the she-wolf still littered."intransitive
6. (transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.Examples: "Tell them how they litter their jades."; "For his ease, well litter'd was the floor."transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary