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Definition of Clitters
1. clitter [v] - See also: clitter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clitters
| clitoridectomizing clits clitter clittered clitters (current term) clitties clival cliver clivers clivia | clivias clivis clivities clivity clivus clivus ocularis clm |
Literary usage of Clitters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chief British Poets of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Selected Poems by William Allan Neilson, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster (1916)
"... He prates and he patters, He chides and he chatters, He clitters and he
clatters, He gloses and he flatters; He meddles and he ..."
2. America Revisited: From the Bay of New York to the Gulf of Mexico, and from by George Augustus Sala (1883)
"Miserably criminal, abandoned, * It is in this that bo clitters most diametrically
and constitutionally from the negro. "Is he an idle man I" asked an ..."
3. A Treatise on Ore Deposits by John Arthur Phillips (1884)
"The mine now making the largest returns is Gunnis Lake clitters, which, during
the year 1881, yielded 2520 tons of copper ore ..."
4. The Scenery of England and the Causes to which it is Due by John Lubbock (1902)
"Such slopes are known as glitters in Northumberland, glyders in North Wales,
clatters or clitters in Devonshire, names evidently having reference to the ..."
5. The Scenery of England and the Causes to which it is Due by John Lubbock (1902)
"... clatters or clitters in Devonshire, names evidently having reference to the
sound of falling stones, and which have in some cases been applied to ..."
6. Diseases of the Spinal Cord by Byrom Bramwell (1884)
"... but his experience in this respect clitters from that of Erb and many others;
of eight cases which have come under my own observation, seven were males. ..."
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