Clotter

Quick meaning: Clotter is a noun meaning (medicine, obsolete) A clot; a mass of clotted blood.

Meaning

(medicine, obsolete) A clot; a mass of clotted blood.

More Meanings

1. (by extension, obsolete) A clump, clod, or mass.
2. (medicine, informal) One who studies the clotting of blood and blood clotting disorders; hematologist.
3. Something that induces (something such as blood or cream) to clot.
4. One whose blood or other tissue forms clots.
5. One who clots for eels; One who fishes with a pole or cord that is baited with a clot of worm strung on worsted or similar material, which gets tangled in the teeth of the eel.
6. (obsolete) One who manually breaks up clumps or clods of soil.
7. (obsolete) To concrete into lumps; to clot.

Example Sentences

I'll bait the lines, I'll bear the pail, I'll row the boat, I'll spread the sail, And dadd the clotters, wi' a flail, to make our ta'tties plenty O!

For a Head-wound cannot brook with such strong Medicines as a Wound may in the leg; and a Wound in a joynt cannot endure such great clotter as that which is in the flesh.

The blood, being gradually forced through his pores, congealed in clotters before it fell to the ground, so that they were great drops, not properly drops, but rather clotters .

[…] that she get not into the weed, as among the cane roots, clotter leaves, or her own weed, and then shall you never get her out without a boat and a reed hook unless the weeds be by the bankside.

Word Forms

• clotters
• clottering
• clottered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clod, clutter, clot, clumper, clump, clout.

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