litter

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Etymology[edit]

From French litière, from lit (bed), from Latin lectus; confer Ancient Greek λέκτρον. Had the sense ‘bed’ in very early English, but then came to mean ‘portable couch’, ‘bedding’, ‘strewn rushes (for animals)’, ...

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Wikipedia litter (countable and uncountable; plural litters)

  1. (countable) 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.
  2. (countable) The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
  3. (uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.
  4. (uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
  5. (uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray
  6. (uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.

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litter (third-person singular simple present litters, present participle littering, simple past and past participle littered)

  1. (intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
    • By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering.
  2. (transitive) To give birth to, used of animals.
  3. (intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
    • Habington
      The inn where he and his horse littered.
  4. (intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
    • Macaulay
      A desert [] where the she-wolf still littered.

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Jèrriais[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French luitier, loitier, luiter (compare French lutter), from Latin luctor, luctārī (struggle, wrestle, fight).

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litter

  1. to wrestle

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