Litter

Quick meaning: Litter is a noun meaning (uncountable) Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (countable) A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.
2. (uncountable, obsolete) Synonym of straw, grass, etc. more generally, particularly in plaster, thatch, and mulch.
3. (countable, obsolete) An act of giving birth to a number of live young at the same time.
4. (uncountable) Waste or debris, originally any mess but now particularly trash left or thrown on the ground.
5. (countable, uncommon) A bed, a substrate formed from loose materials.
6. (uncountable) The layer of fallen leaves and other loose organic material on the ground in a forest.
7. (countable, collective) The whole group of live young born at the same time, typically in reference to mammals or (figurative, derogatory) unpleasant people or objects.

Example Sentences

Quen he had made me hale and fere

... In a lytter made tho full royall.

Glou. There is a Litter ready, lay him in't, And driue toward Douer friend.

As pelows ben to chambres agreable So is harde strawe lytter for the stable.

Word Forms

• litters
• liter
• litere
• littor
• littour
• litre
• litour
• littier
• littre
• littering
• littered

Synonyms for litter

Depending on context, synonyms include straw, grass, garbage, cultch, crap, debris.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bedding, gurney, palanquin, floor, bed, range.

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