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▪ I. † ˈclodder, n. Obs. exc. dial.
[See next, and cf. clotter, cludder, clutter.]
A clotted or curdled mass, a clot.
a1400Mary & Cross 326 in Leg. Rood 142 In cloddres of blod his her was clunge. 1657Reeve God's Plea 24 Thou lookest like raw flesh, yea like a prodigious clodder. 1698Christ Exalted 20 In his Agony, Sweating clodders of Blood.
▪ II. † ˈclodder, v. Obs.
[This and the n. of same form were probably in their origin phonetic variants of clotter, iterative derivative of clot v., the phonetic series being cloter, cloþer, cloder: cf. the first two quots. below, and the equivalence of clod, clot.]
To run together in clots, to coagulate, become clotty or lumpy.
[c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1887 The clothered blood (v.r. clotered, clotred, cloþred).] 1499Promp. Parv. 83 (Pynson) Cloderyn (MS. K. cloteryn, as blode, or other lyke), coagulo. 1530Palsgr. 487/2, I clodder, lyke whaye or bloode whan it is colde, Je congele. 1656Ridgley Pract. Physick 250 If Milk stay long in the Brests, the whey exhaleth, and the rest clodders. 1720Robie in Phil. Trans. XXXI. 122 Cause the Ashes to lump or clodder together. 1876Whitby Gloss., Clodder, to form ingredients into a mass with some soft material. Clodder'd, aggregated.
Hence ˈcloddered ppl. a.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 219 Time..hath purged quite Our former cloddred spots. 1675Brooks Gold. Key Wks. 1867 V. 92 It made his blood startle out of his body in congealed cloddered heaps. |