Word: clotter Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From clot. Pronunciation: /ˈklɒtɚ/ 1. A clot; a mass of clotted blood. Labels: obsolete Example: 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. Example: 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 . 2. A clump, clod, or mass. Labels: broadly, obsolete Example: 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. Example: […] 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. 3. One who manually breaks up clumps or clods of soil. Labels: obsolete Example: 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. Example: 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. Example: During that interval the clotter must swing it to a safe place . Example: 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! 5. One who studies the clotting of blood and blood clotting disorders; hematologist. Labels: informal Example: Results of the physician survey indicate that "clotters" are in the minority among hemophilia treaters. Example: 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. Example: 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. Example: The heparin, in certain people, acts not as a blood thinner, but the reverse, a blood clotter. 7. One whose blood or other tissue forms clots. Example: 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 . Example: 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.