litternoun/ˈlɪt.ɚ/

• 1

  Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.

  • Quen he had made me hale and fere
  • As pelows ben to chambres agreable So is harde strawe lytter for the stable.
• 2

  obsoleteStraw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.

  • Near-synonyms: pallet, straw bed, hay bed (all broadly synonymous)
  • The traitours sought the Kyng... yn the withdrawyng chaumburs, yn the litters, undir the presses.
• 3

  Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.

  • Silkworms... must be well cleansed from the litter.
  • The heir of an estate... troubled himself little about decorating his abode, and, if he attempted decoration, seldom produced anything but deformity. The litter of a farmyard gathered under the windows of his bedchamber, and the cabbages and gooseberry bushes grew close to his hall door.
• 4

  A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.

  • ... In a lytter made tho full royall...
  • Glou. There is a Litter ready, lay him in't, And driue toward Douer friend...
• 5

  medicinesciencesA mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.

  • He ordeyned lyttyers for the wounded knyghtes.
• 6

  A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.

  • 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.
• 7

  obsoleteSynonym of straw, grass, etc. more generally, particularly in plaster, thatch, and mulch.

• 8

  obsoleteAn act of giving birth to a number of live young at the same time.

  • Let new planted Elms be kept moist by frequent refreſhings upon ſome half-rotten Fern, or Litter laid about the foot of the ſtem...

litterverb/ˈlɪt.ɚ/

• 1

  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.
• 2

  To scatter carelessly about.

• 3

  To strew (a place) with scattered articles.

  • 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; […]
  • A single written sheet of paper was on the table near her—but there were more than a hundred others, torn across, littering the floor.
• 4

  To give birth to, in the manner of animals.

  • 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.
• 5

  To produce a litter of young.

  • A desert […] where the she-wolf still littered.
• 6

  To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

  • Tell them how they litter their jades.
  • For his ease, well litter'd was the floor.
• 7

  To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

  • The inn where he and his horse litter'd.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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