Also 9 dial. cluther. [A variant of CLODDER: cf. the sb. See also CLUTTER v.]

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  † 1.  intr. To run into clots, coagulate. Cluddered ppl. a., coagulated, run together, lumpy.

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1545.  Raynold, Byrth Mankynde, Hh iij. It [blood] congeyleth and cludderith together. Ibid., 77. Whiche before were constricte and cluddered together.

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1572.  J. Jones, Bathes Buckstone, 15 a. Matter, cluddered, lomped, or bagged, in any … part.

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  2.  dial. To crowd, heap or cluster together.

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1855.  Whitby Gloss., s.v., ‘They were all cluther’d up.’

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1873.  Swaledale Gloss., Cludder, to crowd.

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1877.  Holderness Gloss., Cluther, to gather in a crowd.

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