“litters” is a form of
litter
/ˈlɪt.ɚ/ noun, verb
Also a form of lit
Forms litters littering littered liter litere lytter lyttre littor littour litre licter letter lictier licture litour littier
- noun (uncountable) Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.
- noun (countable, obsolete) A bed, especially a pile of straw (sometimes also with blankets) used as a bed.
- noun (uncountable) Animal bedding together with its dung.
- noun (countable) A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.
- noun (medicine, countable) Synonym of stretcher, such a vehicle used for transporting the sick and injured, inclusive of designs carried in the hand.
- noun (countable, loosely) Any of the other similar conveyances, such as sedan chairs, hammock litters, and the like.
- noun (uncountable, obsolete) Synonym of straw, grass, etc. more generally, particularly in plaster, thatch, and mulch.
- noun (countable, obsolete) An act of giving birth to a number of live young at the same time.
- verb (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.”
- verb (transitive) To scatter carelessly about.
- verb (transitive) To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
- verb (transitive) To give birth to, in the manner of animals.
- verb (intransitive) To produce a litter of young.
- verb (transitive) To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
- verb (intransitive) To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
Synonyms
pallet straw bed hay bed stretcher such a vehicle used for transporting the sick and injured inclusive of designs carried in the hand straw grass garbage cultch crap debris dreck drek gash junk pelf piece of crap piece of garbage piece of shit bedding material bedding
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English litere, borrowed from Anglo-Norman litere, from Old French litiere (“bedding; bed of loose straw; litter”), from Late Latin lectuāria, from Latin lectus + -āria.
Webster’s 1913
- noun 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. Shak.
- noun Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also, a covering of straw for plants.
- verb To supply with litter, as cattle; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
- verb To put into a confused or disordered condition; to strew with scattered articles; as, to litter a room.
Etymology [F. litière, LL. lectaria, fr. L. lectus couch, bed. See Lie to be prostrated, and cf. Coverlet.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “litter”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details