Litternoun
(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.
Stretchernoun
One who, or that which, stretches.
Litternoun
The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
Stretchernoun
A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.
Litternoun
(uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.
Stretchernoun
A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.
Litternoun
(uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
Stretchernoun
A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
Litternoun
(uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray
Stretchernoun
A brick laid with the longest side exposed (compare header).
Litternoun
(uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.
Stretchernoun
(architecture) A piece of timber used in building.
Litternoun
A covering of straw for plants.
Stretchernoun
(slang) A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
Litterverb
(intransitive) To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
Stretchernoun
(nautical) A board against which a rower places his feet.
Litterverb
(transitive) To scatter carelessly about.
Stretchernoun
(nautical) A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and gripped.
Litterverb
(transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
Stretchernoun
One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.
Litterverb
(transitive) To give birth to, used of animals.
Stretchernoun
An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
Litterverb
(intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
Stretchernoun
(obsolete) A penis, especially a long penis.
Stretcherverb
(transitive) To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.
Litterverb
(intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
Stretchernoun
A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.
Litternoun
Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.
âTo crouch in litter of your stable planks.â; âTake off the litter from your kernel beds.â;
Stretchernoun
A piece of timber used in building.
Litternoun
Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.
âStrephon, who found the room was void.Stole in, and took a strict surveyOf all the litter as it lay.â;
Stretchernoun
A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
Litternoun
Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.
Stretchernoun
A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.
Litternoun
The young brought forth at one time, by a cat, dog, sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.
âA wolf came to a sow, and very kindly offered to take care of her litter.â; âReflect upon that numerous litter of strange, senseless opinions that crawl about the world.â;
Stretchernoun
An overstretching of the truth; a lie.
Litterverb
To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
âTell them how they litter their jades.â; âFor his ease, well littered was the floor.â;
Stretchernoun
One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.
Litterverb
To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
âThe room with volumes littered round.â;
Stretchernoun
An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
Litterverb
To give birth to; to bear; - said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt.
âWe might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us.â; âThe son that she did litter here,A freckled whelp hagborn.â;
Stretchernoun
The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.
Litterverb
To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
âThe innWhere he and his horse littered.â;
Stretchernoun
a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting
Litterverb
To produce a litter.
âA desert . . . where the she-wolf still littered.â;
Stretchernoun
a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it
Litternoun
the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
Stretchernoun
a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles
Litternoun
rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
Stretchernoun
a stone that forms the top of wall or building
Litternoun
conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
Stretcher
A stretcher, gurney, litter, or pram is an apparatus used for moving patients who require medical care. A basic type (cot or litter) must be carried by two or more people.
Litternoun
material used to provide a bed for animals
Litterverb
strew;
âCigar butts littered the groundâ;
Litterverb
make a place messy by strewing garbage around
Litterverb
give birth to a litter of animals
Litternoun
rubbish such as paper, cans, and bottles left lying in an open or public place
âalways clear up after a picnic and never drop litterâ; âa litter binâ;
Litternoun
an untidy collection of things lying about
âa litter of sleeping bags on the floorâ;
Litternoun
a number of young animals born to an animal at one time
âa litter of five kittensâ;
Litternoun
absorbent material, typically in granular form, used to line a shallow receptacle in which a cat can urinate and defecate when indoors
âa plastic litter trayâ;
Litternoun
straw or other plant matter used as bedding for animals
âthe plant burns discarded litter from poultry farmsâ;
Litternoun
decomposing but recognizable leaves and other debris forming a layer on top of the soil, especially in forests
âthe spiders live in leaf litterâ;
Litternoun
a structure used to transport people, containing a bed or seat enclosed by curtains and carried on men's shoulders or by animals.
Litternoun
a framework with a couch for transporting sick or wounded people.
Litterverb
make (a place or area) untidy with rubbish or a large number of objects left lying about
âthe sitting room was littered with booksâ; âclothes and newspapers littered the floorâ;
Litterverb
leave (rubbish or a number of objects) lying untidily in a place
âthere was broken glass littered aboutâ;
Litterverb
fill with examples of a particular thing, typically something bad or unpleasant
ânews pages have been littered with doom and gloom about company collapsesâ;
Litterverb
provide (a horse or other animal) with litter as bedding.
Litter
Litter consists of waste products that have been discarded incorrectly, without consent, at an unsuitable location. Litter can also be used as a verb; to litter means to drop and leave objects, often man-made, such as aluminum cans, paper cups, food wrappers, cardboard boxes or plastic bottles on the ground, and leave them there indefinitely or for other people to dispose of as opposed to disposing of them correctly.