Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (medicine, obsolete) A clot; a mass of clotted blood.
2. (by extension, obsolete) A clump, clod, or mass.
3. (obsolete) One who manually breaks up clumps or clods of soil.
4. 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.
5. (medicine, informal) One who studies the clotting of blood and blood clotting disorders; hematologist.
6. Something that induces (something such as blood or cream) to clot.
7. One whose blood or other tissue forms clots.
8. (obsolete) To concrete into lumps; to clot.

Example Sentences

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.

Also the whole substance of the Lungs was full of a purulent matter, very heavy. And her left Testicle was as big as a small Egg, blackish, and as it were Gangrenated, which being opened there leapt out of it something like a Nut Kernel, and like a putrified clotter of Blood .

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 .

But the change of this, or that determinate clotter of the Seed, does only vary the Situation of the Child formed in the Womb, which is the cause that we find the Child variously situate in the Womb.

[…] 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.

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!

On this morning, a neighbouring, substantial farmer, passed by us, with half the country for clotters, as we were going to put the horses to the roller , as he had no longer patience to wait for rains, to reduce the rough state of his ground, designed for barley feed: he gazed at the roller, smiled, and went his way with his troop.

The clod-crusher, again, reduces the lumps to tilth, that no wooden "beetle," no loaded "sledge," no army of clotters could have broken, while on light land it gives consistence to the soil, making thousands of acres of corn stand upright which would otherwise . have been rotting on the ground.

Word Forms

• clotters
• clottering
• clottered

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