litter

Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.

Quen he had made me hale and fere

As pelows ben to chambres agreable So is harde strawe lytter for the stable.

Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.

Near-synonyms: pallet, straw bed, hay bed (all broadly synonymous)

The traitours sought the Kyng... yn the withdrawyng chaumburs, yn the litters, undir the presses.

Straw, grass, and similar loose material used as bedding for people or animals.

Silkworms... must be well cleansed from the litter.

The heir of an estate... troubled himself little about decorating his abode, and, if he attempted decoration, seldom produced anything but deformity. The litter of a farmyard gathered under the windows of his bedchamber, and the cabbages and gooseberry bushes grew close to his hall door.

A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.

... In a lytter made tho full royall...

Glou. There is a Litter ready, lay him in't, And driue toward Douer friend...

A mobile bed or couch transported upon or suspended from poles placed over human shoulders or animal backs.

He ordeyned lyttyers for the wounded knyghtes.

To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).

By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering.

To scatter carelessly about.

To strew (a place) with scattered articles.

Their Clamour, 'lighting from their Chairs, / Grew lowder, all the way up Stairs; / At Entrance louder, where they found, / The Room with Volumes litter'd round; [...]

To give birth to, in the manner of animals.

We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us.

The son that she did litter here, / A freckled whelp hagborn.

To produce a litter of young.

A desert […] where the she-wolf still littered.