Definitions for litters

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litters lit·ter

Spelling: [lit-er]

IPA: /ˈlɪt ər/

Litters is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in litters (eilrstt).

Definitions for litters

noun

1. objects strewn or scattered about; scattered rubbish.
2. a condition of disorder or untidiness:
3. a number of young brought forth by a multiparous animal at one birth:
4. a framework of cloth stretched between two parallel bars, for the transportation of a sick or wounded person; stretcher.
5. a vehicle carried by people or animals, consisting of a bed or couch, often covered and curtained, suspended between shafts.
6. straw, hay, or the like, used as bedding for animals or as protection for plants.
7. the layer of slightly decomposed organic material on the surface of the floor of the forest.
8. cat litter.

Idioms

1. pick of the litter, the best or choicest of the animals, especially puppies, in a litter. the best of any class, group, or available selection.

verb (used with object)

1. to strew (a place) with scattered objects, rubbish, etc.:
2. to scatter (objects) in disorder:
3. to be strewn about (a place) in disorder (often followed by up):
4. to give birth to (young), as a multiparous animal.
5. to supply (an animal) with litter for a bed.
6. to use (straw, hay, etc.) for litter.
7. to cover (a floor or other area) with straw, hay, etc., for litter.

verb (used without object)

1. to give birth to a litter:
2. to strew objects about:

Origin of litters

1250-1300; Middle English litere bed, litter Anglo-French; Old French litiere Medieval Latin lectāria, equivalent to Latin lect(us) bed + -āria feminine of -ārius -er

Examples for litters

The horses were without stalls or litter, in a dark, ill-paved barn.

Remember when Chandler was sexually attracted to sharks and Phoebe raised a litter of baby rats?

We coo over how cute our cat is and minimize the drudgery of cleaning the litter box.

The hallways were strewn with straw and the litter of packing.

The boys took turns with Trapper Jim in carrying the litter.

Bucking and running into the forest, the deer collapsed dead in a litter of leaves.

According to Swiss press reports, younger cats in the litter are the most tender and, as such, are the preferred cat cuts.

You'd think that when you get the pick of the litter, the litter would be great.

I flushed to see her regard the litter about me with calm deliberateness.

There was such a litter as always gathers around a literary man.