单词	litter
释义	lit·ter I. \ˈlid.ə(r), ˈlitə-\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English litere, liter bed, litter, from Old French litiere, from lit bed, from Latin lectus — more at lie 1.  a. : a vehicle consisting of a usually covered and curtained couch in which a single passenger is carried   < as Rome became powerful and captured many slaves, the usual conveyance in the city was a litter carried on the shoulders of four men — Edwin Tunis >  b. : a bed, stretcher, basket, or other device for carrying a sick or injured person   < the wounded general … was moved to the rear first by wagon, then by litter — John Mason Brown > 2.  a. : material (as straw or hay) used especially as bedding for animals   < fibrous peat is also used as … litter material for bedding stock and for stable and poultry yards — J.A.DeCarlo & Maxine M. Otero >  b. : the uppermost slightly decayed layer of organic matter on the forest floor   < rain … is absorbed by the spongelike mass of litter and then seeps into the soil — London Calling >   — compare duff, humus 3.  a. : the offspring at one birth of a multiparous animal   < a litter of puppies >  b. archaic : an act of animal parturition   < the female produces from three to six young ones at a litter — Samuel Williams > 4.  a. : refuse or rubbish lying scattered about   < the litter of rusty cans and foul rags — Van Wyck Brooks >  b. : an untidy accumulation of objects lying about   < an old pamphlet among the litter of the abbot's study — J.H.Blunt > [litter 1a] II. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) transitive verb 1.  a. : to supply (an animal) with material for bedding   < keep him warm by littering him up to the belly with fresh straw — Edward Topsell >  b. : to cover (as a floor) with material for bedding   < a loose stable, well littered down with fresh straw — Sporting Magazine > 2. : to produce a litter of  < wolves littered their young in the deserted farmhouses — Samuel Smiles > 3.  a. : to strew with scattered articles   < the great majority litters the scene with papers, boxes, cans … — Phoenix Flame >  b. : to scatter about in disorder   < littered his clothing all over the floor >  c. : to lie about in disorder   < pieces of stuccoed tracery … littered the garden — Charles Lever > intransitive verb 1. : to produce a litter  < a horrible desert … where the she wolf still littered — T.B.Macaulay > 2. : to strew litter  < don't litter > III. noun : material used to absorb the urine and feces of animals
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