▪ I. † ˈclodder, n. Obs. exc. dial.
[See next, and cf. clotter, cludder, clutter.]
A clotted or curdled mass, a clot.
| a 1400 Mary & Cross 326 in Leg. Rood 142 In cloddres of blod his her was clunge. 1657 Reeve God's Plea 24 Thou lookest like raw flesh, yea like a prodigious clodder. 1698 Christ 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.
| [c 1386 Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1887 The clothered blood (v.r. clotered, clotred, cloþred).] 1499 Promp. Parv. 83 (Pynson) Cloderyn (MS. K. cloteryn, as blode, or other lyke), coagulo. 1530 Palsgr. 487/2, I clodder, lyke whaye or bloode whan it is colde, Je congele. 1656 Ridgley Pract. Physick 250 If Milk stay long in the Brests, the whey exhaleth, and the rest clodders. 1720 Robie in Phil. Trans. XXXI. 122 Cause the Ashes to lump or clodder together. 1876 Whitby Gloss., Clodder, to form ingredients into a mass with some soft material. Clodder'd, aggregated. |
Hence ˈcloddered ppl. a.
| 1570–6 Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 219 Time..hath purged quite Our former cloddred spots. 1675 Brooks Gold. Key Wks. 1867 V. 92 It made his blood startle out of his body in congealed cloddered heaps. |