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Webster 1913 Edition

Clutter

Clut′ter

,
Noun.
[Cf. W.
cludair
heap, pile,
cludeirio
to heap.]
1.
A confused collection; hence, confusion; disorder;
as, the room is in a
clutter
.
He saw what a
clutter
there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits.
L’Estrange.
2.
Clatter; confused noise.
Swift.

Clut′ter

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Cluttered
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Cluttering
.]
To crowd together in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange;
as, to
clutter
a room
.

Clut′ter

,
Verb.
I.
To make a confused noise; to bustle.
It [the goose]
cluttered
here, it chuckled there.
Tennyson.

Clut′ter

,
Verb.
T.
[From
Clod
,
Noun.
]
To clot or coagulate, as blood.
[Obs.]
Holland.

Webster 1828 Edition

Clutter

CLUTTER

, n.
1.
A heap or assemblage of things lying in confusion; a word of domestic application.
He saw what a clutter there was with huge pots, pans and spits.
2.
Noise; bustle. [This sense seems allied to clatter, but it is not the sense of the word in N. England.]

CLUTTER

,
Verb.
T.
To crowd together in disorder; to fill with things in confusion; as, to clutter a room; to clutter the house.

CLUTTER

,
Verb.
I.
To make a bustle, or fill with confusion.
[The English lexicographers explain this word by noise and bustle; but probably by mistake.]

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