clotter
/ˈklɒtɚ/
clotter noun: a clot; a mass of clotted blood.
Noun
clotter (plural clotters)
- A clot; a mass of clotted blood.
- For a Head-wound cannot brook with such strong Medicines as a Wound may in the leg; and a Wound in a joynt cannot endure such great clotter as that which is in the flesh.1658, Felix Wuertz, The Surgeons Guid, page 61
- Also the whole substance of the Lungs was full of a purulent matter, very heavy. And her left Testicle was as big as a small Egg, blackish, and as it were Gangrenated, which being opened there leapt out of it something like a Nut Kernel, and like a putrified clotter of Blood .1687, William Salmon, Παρατηρηματα: or Select physical and chyrurgical Observations, page 41
- A clump, clod, or mass.
- But the change of this, or that determinate clotter of the Seed, does only vary the Situation of the Child formed in the Womb, which is the cause that we find the Child variously situate in the Womb.1668, Thomas Bartholin, Bartholinus Anatomy, page 68
- […] that she get not into the weed, as among the cane roots, clotter leaves, or her own weed, and then shall you never get her out without a boat and a reed hook unless the weeds be by the bankside.1676, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, page 349
- One who manually breaks up clumps or clods of soil.
- On this morning, a neighbouring, substantial farmer, passed by us, with half the country for clotters, as we were going to put the horses to the roller , as he had no longer patience to wait for rains, to reduce the rough state of his ground, designed for barley feed: he gazed at the roller...1777, The Complete Farmer, page 175
- The clod-crusher, again, reduces the lumps to tilth, that no wooden "beetle," no loaded "sledge," no army of clotters could have broken, while on light land it gives consistence to the soil, making thousands of acres of corn stand upright which would otherwise . have been rotting on the ground.1859, Agriculture of Maine, page 221
- One who clots for eels; One who fishes with a pole or cord that is baited with a clot of worm strung on worsted or similar material, which gets tangled in the teeth of the eel.
- During that interval the clotter must swing it to a safe place .1946 April 12, Roy Beddington, “Traps for the Yellow Eel”, in Country Life Illustrated, volume 99, page 674
- He has the reputation of being the best eel-clotter on the Usk . In Monmouthshire to be an eel-clotter does not necessarily mean that one's captures are entirely restricted to eels; so John limits his permission to a day!1950, Dorothea Eastwood, River Diary, page 111
- One who studies the clotting of blood and blood clotting disorders; hematologist.
- Results of the physician survey indicate that "clotters" are in the minority among hemophilia treaters.1972, Pilot Study of Hemophilia Treatment in the U.S, page 85
- That changed after 1952, as clotters introduced their colleagues in hamatology to new assays for identifying hemophila and other bleeding disorders, such as the partial thromboplastin time.2011, Stephen Pemberton, The Bleeding Disease, page 102
- Something that induces (something such as blood or cream) to clot.
- Vitamin K, menadione, C₁₁H₈O₂ (Figure 6.10), which is found in spinach and cabbage and a wide range of other foods and acts as a blood clotter.2005, Alan Jones, Chemistry: An Introduction for Medical and Health Sciences, page 93
- The heparin, in certain people, acts not as a blood thinner, but the reverse, a blood clotter.2006, Arno Herwerth, Ants in My RV, page 116
- One whose blood or other tissue forms clots.
- Further, studies among both normal and uremic patients show no unique whole blood clotting reactions by certain persons to particular surfaces, but do show differences of coagulability states among pateinets, possibly providing a means of identifying the "clotter" and "non-clotter" populations of...1974, Dale D. Lindholm, Kearny Q. Robert, Edward S. Lindsey, Paul D. May, “New Concepts in Blood Access Devices: Contract Number NO1-AM-3-2214”, in Program, Annual Contractor's Conference, volume 7...
- He was a good clotter. A doctor, patching him up for perhaps the fifth or sixth time, had once called him the best damn clotter he'd ever seen.2009, Michael Weaver, Deceptions
Verb
clotter (third-person singular simple present clotters, present participle clottering, simple past and past participle clottered)
Examples of clotter in a sentence
- The blood, being gradually forced through his pores, congealed in clotters before it fell to the ground, so that they were great drops, not properly drops, but rather clotters .2006, Jonathan Edwards, Stephen J. Stein, The "blank Bible" - Volume 24, Part 2, page 919:
- I'll bait the lines, I'll bear the pail, I'll row the boat, I'll spread the sail, And dadd the clotters, wi' a flail, to make our ta'tties plenty O!1836 June, James Hogg, “Birnieboeuzle”, in The Southern Literary Journal, volume 2, number 4, page 258:
- I asked Doc Enigma about my new friends the "clotters” aka platelets, tonight.2014, Jacqueline McDaniels Martin, Three Little Birds, page 269:
- Did they say you were a clotter or give you any explanation for the strokes ?2011, Kevin Sorbo, True Strength:
Forms of clotter
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | clotters |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | clotters |
| present participle | clottering |
| past participle | clottered |
| past | clottered |
Origin of clotter
From clot.
Questions about clotter
- What does clotter mean?
- Clotter means a clot; a mass of clotted blood.
- How do you use clotter in a sentence?
- The blood, being gradually forced through his pores, congealed in clotters before it fell to the ground, so that they were great drops, not properly drops, but rather clotters .
- What part of speech is clotter?
- Clotter can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce clotter?
- Clotter is pronounced /ˈklɒtɚ/.
- What is the plural of clotter?
- The plural of clotter is clotters.
Words near clotter in the dictionary
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