Clotter
noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A clot; a mass of clotted blood. obsolete
"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."
- 2 A clump, clod, or mass. broadly, obsolete
"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."
- 3 One who manually breaks up clumps or clods of soil. obsolete
"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, smiled, and went his way with his troop."
- 4 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 ."
- 5 One who studies the clotting of blood and blood clotting disorders; hematologist. informal
"Results of the physician survey indicate that "clotters" are in the minority among hemophilia treaters."
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- 6 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."
- 7 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 patients suspected from clinical dialysis experience ."
- 1 To concrete into lumps; to clot. obsolete
"clottered blood"
Synonyms
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More examples"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."
Etymology
From clot.