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Definition of 'litter'English
Noun
( wikipedia)
(countable) A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.
* Shakespeare
- There is a litter ready; lay him in 't.
(countable) The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
* D. Estrange
- A wolf came to a sow, and very kindly offered to take care of her litter .
(uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.
(uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
* Jonathan Swift
- Strephon / Stole in, and took a strict survey / Of all the litter as it lay.
(uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray
(uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.
A covering of straw for plants.
* Evelyn
- Take off the litter from your kernel beds.
Synonyms
* (platform designed to carry a person or a load): palanquin, sedan chair, stretcher, cacolet
* (items discarded on the ground): waste, rubbish, garbage (US), trash (US), junk
Derived terms
* cat litter
* litter bin
* litter bug, litterbug
* litter frog
Verb
( en-verb)
To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
* By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering .
To strew with scattered articles.
* Jonathan Swift
- the room with volumes littered round
To give birth to, used of animals.
* Sir Thomas Browne
- We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us.
* Shakespeare
- The son that she did litter here, / A freckled whelp hagborn.
To produce a litter of young.
* Macaulay
- A desert where the she-wolf still littered .
To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
* Bishop Hacke
- Tell them how they litter their jades.
* Dryden
- For his ease, well littered was the floor.
To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
* Habington
- The inn where he and his horse littered .
Derived terms
* litterer
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