litter
suomi-englanti sanakirjalitter englannista suomeksi
kantotuoli
täyttää
pahnat, kuivikkeet
pentue, pesue, poikue
poikia, synnyttää pesue
roskata, sotkea
roska
litter englanniksi
Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals. (defdate)
(a.), ''Cursor Mundi'' (Vespasian MS), lines 13817(ndas)8:
(quote-text)|title=Horse, Goose, and Sheep
{{quote-book|en|year=1693|translator=John Evelyn|author=Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie|title=The Compleat Gard'ner...|page=54
{{quote-book|en|year=1774|author=Joseph Collyer|title=The History of England...|volume=II|page=126
{{quote-text|en|year=1862|author=Albert Henry Wratislaw|title=of Baron Wenceslas Wratislaw of Mitrowitz|Adventures of Baron Wenceslas Wratislaw of Mitrowitz...|section=of Baron Wenceslas Wratislaw of Mitrowitz/Book_2|Book II, p. 59
A bed, especially a pile of straw with blankets &c. used as a bed.
(quote-book)|title=The Full Lamentable Cronycle of the Dethe and False Murdure of James Stewarde...|page=17
(quote-text)|title=The Historye of Reynart the Foxe|page=57
A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs. (defdate)
1410s, (w), ''(w)'', Canto II:
(RQ:Shakespeare King Lear)
(synonym of), such a vehicle used for transporting the sick and injured, inclusive of designs carried in the hand.
(quote-book)|title=(w)|chapter=XIX
The general category of all such similar vehicles, inclusive of chairs, litters, and the like.
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An act of giving birth to a number of live young the same time. (defdate)
(synonym of), grass, &c. more generally, particularly in plaster, thatch, and mulch. (defdate)
(RQ:Evelyn Sylva)
The whole group of live young born the same time, typically reference to mammals or unpleasant people or objects. (defdate)
(RQ:L'Estrange Fables of Aesop)
1859, (w), ''(w)...'', p. 10:
- Strongly-marked differences occasionally appear in the young of the same litter.
(quote-book)|title=(w)|volume=I|page=137
(ux)
Waste or debris, originally any mess but now particularly trash left or thrown on the ground.
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2023, Charles Chao Rong Phua, ''Policy Strategy and Innovation Primer...'', p. 22:
- In the case of a simple problem such as littering, the success or failure of a solution can immediately be assessed once and for all. A successful solution is one that results in no litter being present. Assuming the solution did not involve summarily executing anyone suspected of being about to drop litter, it is unlikely to have significant second-order effects.
{{quote-book|en|year=1835|author=Andrew Ure|title=The Philosophy of Manufactures|page=232
(quote-book)|title=The History of England...|volume=I|page=320
{{quote-book|en|year=1848|translators=Edmund Ronalds; et al|author=Friedrich Ludwig Knapp|title=Chemical Technology|volume=I|page=35
The layer of fallen leaves and other loose organic material on the ground in a forest. (defdate)
1905, "Terms Used in Forestry and Logging", ''Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Forestry'', No. 61, p. 14:
- Litter, that portion of the forest floor which is not in an advanced state of decomposition.
fuller's earth|Fuller's earth, clay pellets, chips, or other similar loose absorbent materials used for the waste of pet animals. (defdate)
To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
To scatter carelessly about.
To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
(RQ:Swift Cadenus and Vanessa)
To give birth to, in the manner of animals.
(RQ:Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica)
(RQ:Shakespeare Tempest)
To produce a litter of young.
(RQ:Macaulay History of England) where the she-wolf still littered.
To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
{{quote-text|en|year=1693|author=John Hacket|title=Scrinia reserata: a Memorial offered to the great Deservings of John Williams
(RQ:Dryden Fables)
To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
{{quote-text|en|year=1634|author=William Habington|title=Castara
(en-comparative of)
to wrestle