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Definition of Litter
1. Verb. Strew. "Cigar butts littered the ground"
2. Noun. The offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal.
3. Verb. Make a place messy by strewing garbage around.
4. Noun. Rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places).
5. Verb. Give birth to a litter of animals.
6. Noun. Conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers.
Specialized synonyms: Covered Couch, Palankeen, Palanquin, Sedan, Sedan Chair, Stretcher
7. Noun. Material used to provide a bed for animals.
Definition of Litter
1. n. A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
2. v. t. To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
3. v. i. To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
Definition of Litter
1. Noun. 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. ¹
2. Noun. The offspring of a mammal born in one birth. ¹
3. Noun. Material used as bedding for animals. ¹
4. Noun. Collectively, items discarded on the ground. ¹
5. Noun. Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray ¹
6. Noun. Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor. ¹
7. Verb. (intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles). ¹
8. Verb. (transitive) To give birth to, used of animals. ¹
9. Verb. (intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter. ¹
10. Verb. (intransitive) To produce a litter of young. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Litter
1. to scatter rubbish about [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Litter
1. The undecomposed plant and animal material found on the forest floor. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Litter
Literary usage of Litter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Forestry by William Schlich (1896)
"vegetable structure has completely disappeared, in litter (Streu), this structure
is quite recognizable. Humus cannot be used in stalls for litter, ..."
2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1888)
"The chief of the squad designated to practise with a litter, ... The left file
takes position on the left of the litter, opposite its centre and one yard ..."
3. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"High Dosage of Testosterone Propionate Increases litter Production of the Genetically
... This disparity in litter production by the two treatment groups is ..."
4. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1869)
"Then came the royal servants bearing the litter. The royal ser- whilst Bharata and
... took hold of the litter and the utter. followed it weeping. ..."
5. Site Management and Productivity in Tropical Plantation Forests: Proceedings by E. K. Sadanandan Nambiar (2004)
"Decomposition The decomposition rate of A. mangium litter was slow. ... litter decay
rate at Toman in the beginning was slightly slower than at ..."
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