Definition of Clabbers

1. Verb. (third-person singular of clabber) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clabbers

1. clabber [v] - See also: clabber

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clabbers

civism
civisms
civitas
civitates
civvie
civvies
civvy
civvy street
cixutumumab
cizars
cizers
cl
clabber
clabbered
clabbering
clabbers (current term)
clach
clachan
clachans
clachs
clack
clack valve
clackbox
clacked
clacker
clackers
clackety

Literary usage of Clabbers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Agriculture, Southern and Western by W. C. Welborn, H. Ness, Charles Emerson Sanborn, R. P. Marstellar (1908)
"The milk is set in pans, and the cream continues to rise till the milk clabbers. In summer it clabbers perhaps before two-thirds of the cream rises. ..."

2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1853)
"... chicken-milk, together with all possible and improbable combinations of creams and clabbers, are served up, either neatly or in fusion with the waters, ..."

3. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1900)
"... cream to be churned off of milk that is sour just before it clabbers, the other half sweet cream, ie, half sour and half sweet cream. Mix well in churn. ..."

4. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1870)
"Mrs. A. skims her milk before it clabbers; as soon as the milk has grown slightly acid the cream is removed. ..."

5. Home Labor Saving Devices by Rhea Clarke Scott (1918)
"... clabbers and a thick leathery sheet of cream is formed on the top. Good butter cannot be made from milk or cream handled in this manner. ..."

6. Community Hygiene by Woods Hutchinson (1920)
"Lactic is simply the Latin word for milky, and lactic acid bacillus means the milk sour germ. The acid produced by this germ curdles or " clabbers " the ..."

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