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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.
Oct 22, 2021

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.
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Litter

Rubbish such as paper, cans, and bottles left lying in an open or public place
Always clear up after a picnic and never drop litter
A litter bin
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Stretcher

A litter, usually of canvas stretched over a frame, used to transport the sick, wounded, or dead.
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Litter

A number of young animals born to an animal at one time
A litter of five kittens
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Stretcher

One that stretches, such as the wooden framework on which canvas is stretched for an oil painting.
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Litter

Absorbent material, typically in granular form, used to line a shallow receptacle in which a cat can urinate and defecate when indoors
A plastic litter tray
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Stretcher

A usually horizontal tie beam or brace serving to support or extend a framework.
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Litter

Straw or other plant matter used as bedding for animals
The plant burns discarded litter from poultry farms
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Stretcher

A brick or stone laid parallel to the face of a wall so that only its long side is showing.
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Litter

A structure used to transport people, containing a bed or seat enclosed by curtains and carried on men's shoulders or by animals.
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Stretcher

(Informal) An exaggerated or fabricated assertion or anecdote
"That book ... is mostly a true book, with some stretchers" (Mark Twain).
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Litter

Make (a place or area) untidy with rubbish or a large number of objects left lying about
The sitting room was littered with books
Clothes and newspapers littered the floor
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Stretcher

One who, or that which, stretches.
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Litter

Provide (a horse or other animal) with litter as bedding.
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Stretcher

A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.
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Litter

Carelessly discarded refuse, such as wastepaper
The litter in the streets after a parade.
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Stretcher

A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.
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Litter

A disorderly accumulation of objects; a pile. “An iron washstand [stood] in the corner amidst a litter of soap and soiled towels” (Molly Gloss).
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Stretcher

A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
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Litter

The group of offspring produced at one birth by a mammal.
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Stretcher

A brick laid with the longest side exposed (compare header).
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Litter

Material, such as straw, used as bedding for animals.
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Stretcher

(architecture) A piece of timber used in building.
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Litter

An absorbent material for covering the floor of an animal's cage or litterbox.
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Stretcher

(slang) A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
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Litter

An enclosed or curtained couch mounted on shafts and used to carry a single passenger.
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Stretcher

(nautical) A board against which a rower places his feet.
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Litter

A flat supporting framework, such as a piece of canvas stretched between parallel shafts, for carrying a disabled or dead person; a stretcher.
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Stretcher

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.
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Litter

Fallen leaves and other decaying organic matter that make up the top layer of a forest floor.
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Stretcher

(obsolete) A penis, especially a long penis.
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Litter

To give birth to (a litter).
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Stretcher

(transitive) To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.
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Litter

To make untidy by discarding rubbish carelessly
Someone had littered the beach with food wrappers.
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Stretcher

One who, or that which, stretches.
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Litter

To scatter about
Littered towels all over the locker room.
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Stretcher

A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.
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Litter

To be scattered about (an area)
“A lot of torn envelopes and open letters littered his bed” (Joseph Conrad).
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Stretcher

A piece of timber used in building.
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Litter

To include certain items such as expressions throughout (a speech or piece of writing, for example)
Littered his letters with the names of powerful friends.
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Stretcher

A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
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Litter

(Archaic) To supply (animals) with litter for bedding or floor covering.
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Stretcher

A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.
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Litter

To give birth to a litter.
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Stretcher

An overstretching of the truth; a lie.
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Litter

To scatter litter.
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Stretcher

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.
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Litter

(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.
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Stretcher

An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
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Litter

The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
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Stretcher

The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.
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Litter

(uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.
Sleep in the litter
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Stretcher

A wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting
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Litter

(uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
Don't drop litter
Put litter in the bin
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Stretcher

A mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it
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Litter

(uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray
The cat's litter
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Stretcher

A litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles
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Litter

(uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.
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Stretcher

A stone that forms the top of wall or building
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Litter

A covering of straw for plants.
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Litter

(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.
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Litter

(transitive) To scatter carelessly about.
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Litter

(transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
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Litter

(transitive) To give birth to, used of animals.
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Litter

(intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
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Litter

(transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
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Litter

(intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
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Litter

A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
There is a litter ready; lay him in 't.
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Litter

Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.
To crouch in litter of your stable planks.
Take off the litter from your kernel beds.
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Litter

Things lying scattered about in a manner indicating slovenliness; scattered rubbish.
Strephon, who found the room was void.Stole in, and took a strict surveyOf all the litter as it lay.
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Litter

Disorder or untidiness resulting from scattered rubbish, or from thongs lying about uncared for; as, a room in a state of litter.
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Litter

The young brought forth at one time, by a cat, dog, sow or other multiparous animal, taken collectively. Also Fig.
A wolf came to a sow, and very kindly offered to take care of her litter.
Reflect upon that numerous litter of strange, senseless opinions that crawl about the world.
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Litter

To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
Tell them how they litter their jades.
For his ease, well littered was the floor.
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Litter

To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
The room with volumes littered round.
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Litter

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.
We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us.
The son that she did litter here,A freckled whelp hagborn.
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Litter

To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
The innWhere he and his horse littered.
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Litter

To produce a litter.
A desert . . . where the she-wolf still littered.
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Litter

The offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
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Litter

Rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
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Litter

Conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
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Litter

Material used to provide a bed for animals
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Litter

Strew;
Cigar butts littered the ground
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Litter

Make a place messy by strewing garbage around
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Litter

Give birth to a litter of animals
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