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▪ I. † ˈlittering, n. Obs.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Litterings, small Sticks that keep the Web stretch'd on a Weaver's Loom.
▪ II. littering, vbl. n.|ˈlɪtərɪŋ|
[f. litter v. + -ing1.]
In senses of the vb.
1. a. The action of furnishing beasts with litter, or covering a floor with litter. b. concr. The straw of an animal's bed; a layer of litter in a stable. c. collect. Odds and ends scattered about.
a.1607Markham Caval. v. iv. 15 This is called littering of Horses; and when you haue thus done, you shall let him rest till the next morning. 1849Stephens Bk. of the Farm §955 Mr. Hunter..tried..the littering of the break, occupied by the sheep, with straw.
b.1382Wyclif Gen. xxxi. 34 Rachel..hidde the mawmetis under the literyng of a camele. 1856Ferrier Inst. Metaph. Introd. (ed. 2) 9 To add another coating to the infinite litterings of the Augean stable.
c.1897Daily News 3 May 7/2 Ten times more littering..is left by the fashionable promenaders on the expensive fête days.
d. The action of throwing or dropping litter.
1960Times 14 Sept. 12/7 There is something of the threat of doom in the perfunctory notice of New York pavements ‘Littering 25 dollars’. 1970D. E. Westlake Hot Rock (1971) i. i. 13 He threw the Kleenex on the sidewalk. Littering. 1972Jrnl. Soc. Psychol. LXXXVII. 324 The interview dealt with littering{ddd}‘should it be everyone's responsibility to pick up litter?’
2. The process of bringing forth (young) or of being brought forth.
1542–5Brinklow Lament. 26 b, The ionge in the lytterynge, or forth bryngynge. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 110 They [bitches] have milk about five days before the littering. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxv. 174 At the first littering their eyes are fastly closed.
▪ III. littering, ppl. a.|ˈlɪtərɪŋ|
[f. litter v. + -ing2.]
That litters, or makes a ‘litter’.
1863Atkinson Stanton Grange xvi. (1864) 172 The first thing I saw..was part of a huge littering jackdaw's nest. |