clotter

English

Etymology

From clot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɒtɚ/

Noun

clotter (plural clotters)

1. (medicine, obsolete) A clot; a mass of clotted blood.
   • 1658, Felix Wuertz, The Surgeons Guid, page 61:

     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.

   • 1687, William Salmon, Παρατηρηματα: or Select physical and chyrurgical Observations, page 41:

     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 .

   • 2006, Jonathan Edwards, ‎Stephen J. Stein, The "blank Bible" - Volume 24, Part 2, page 919:

     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 .

2. (by extension, obsolete) A clump, clod, or mass.
   • 1668, Thomas Bartholin, Bartholinus Anatomy, page 68:

     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.

   • 1676, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler, page 349:

     […] 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.

   • 1836 June, James Hogg, “Birnieboeuzle”, in The Southern Literary Journal, volume 2, number 4, page 258:

     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!

3. (obsolete) One who manually breaks up clumps or clods of soil.
   • 1777, The Complete Farmer, page 175:

     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.

   • 1859, Agriculture of Maine, page 221:

     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.

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.
   • 1946 April 12, Roy Beddington, “Traps for the Yellow Eel”, in Country Life Illustrated, volume 99, page 674:

     During that interval the clotter must swing it to a safe place .

   • 1950, Dorothea Eastwood, River Diary, page 111:

     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, The Salmon and Trout Magazine - Volumes 128-133, page 24:

     This latter method is effective because the teeth of the eel grow inwards and become embedded for a period in the worsted; turing this period the "clotter" must raise his eel skyward and deposit it in the well of the punt if he fishes in mid-stream or into an upturned umbrella if by the bank.

5. (medicine, informal) One who studies the clotting of blood and blood clotting disorders; hematologist.
   • 1972, Pilot Study of Hemophilia Treatment in the U.S, page 85:

     Results of the physician survey indicate that "clotters" are in the minority among hemophilia treaters.

   • 2011, Stephen Pemberton, The Bleeding Disease, page 102:

     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.

6. Something that induces (something such as blood or cream) to clot.
   • 2005, Alan Jones, Chemistry: An Introduction for Medical and Health Sciences, page 93:

     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.

   • 2006, Arno Herwerth, Ants in My RV, page 116:

     The heparin, in certain people, acts not as a blood thinner, but the reverse, a blood clotter.

   • 2014, Jacqueline McDaniels Martin, Three Little Birds, page 269:

     I asked Doc Enigma about my new friends the "clotters” aka platelets, tonight.

7. One whose blood or other tissue forms clots.
   • 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, page 53:

     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 .

   • 2009, Michael Weaver, Deceptions:

     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.

   • 2011, Kevin Sorbo, True Strength:

     Did they say you were a clotter or give you any explanation for the strokes ?

   • 2012, Joyce Hoffman, The Tales of a Stroke Patient, page 162:

     I am both a clotter and a bleeder, so the hematologist earns her money with a patient like me .

Verb

clotter (third-person singular simple present clotters, present participle clottering, simple past and past participle clottered)

1. (obsolete) To concrete into lumps; to clot.
   • 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     clottered blood

Anagrams

• Corlett, cottrel, crottle