Also 6 clitheren, 9 dial. clider, -s. [App. f. an OE. vb. clíðan (whence æt cliðende ‘adhaerentem,’ in 9th c. Bede Glosses, Sweet O.E.T. 181) to stick. Cf. also OE. cliðwyrt ‘glossed Rubea minor’ (Cockayne, Leechd.).] Another name of the plant Clivers or Cleavers.
1597. Gerarde, Herball, Supp. Table of Eng. Names (gathered [partly] from the mouthes of plaine and simple Countrie people) Clitheren is Goosegrass or Cliuers.
1847–78. Halliwell, Clider, goosegrass. Var. dial.
1853. Miss Yonge, Heir of Redclyffe, vii. (1874), 83. Disentangling some cliders from the silky curls of Bustle’s ear. Ibid. (1887), Herb of the Field, 173. Cliders have a very minute white flower.
1880. E. & W. Cornwall Gloss., Cliders … the rough bedstraw.
