▪ I. † ˈclotter, n. Obs. rare.
[f. clotter v.: cf. the variants clodder, and clutter.]
Formation of clots, coagulation in a soft mass.
| 1658 A. Fox tr. Wurtz' Surg. ii. vi. 61 A Wound in a joynt cannot endure such great clotter as that which is in the flesh. 1668 Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. xxviii. 68 This, or that determinate clotter of the Seed. |
▪ II. † ˈclotter, v. Obs.
Also 5 cloter, clother.
[Frequentative and diminutive from clot v.: cf. batter, stutter, etc. Cf. also clodder, clutter, both app. in their origin variants of this.]
1. intr. To run together in clots, to coagulate. Also trans. To curdle or coagulate. (The two constructions meet in the pa. pple., which was originally intransitive.)
| c 1386 [see clottered.] 1481 Caxton Reynard xxxiv. (Arb.) 100 Moche fylth cloterd in gobettis. c 1490 Promp. Parv. 83 (MS. K) Cloteryn, as blode or other lyke [1499 Pynson, cloderyn], coagulo. 1635 Swan Spec. M. v. §2 (1643) 119 The matter..meeting with wet vapours..clottereth together. 1700 Dryden Palamon & Arc. ii. 577 The gore congealed was clottered in his hair. |
2. fig. and transf. To huddle together or up.
| 1537 St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 497 It were goode to examyn the causeis of ther dyspleasors..for yf it be clotterid up in an hobyll shoffe, ther endure amytie and conformytie, but as long as ye shalbe here. 1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. xix. 1 The heavens..are not clottered together by chaunce. |
Hence † ˈclottering vbl. n.
| 1611 Cotgr., Concretion, compaction..curding, clottering, fastening together. |