Obs. [This and the sb. of same form were probably in their origin phonetic variants of CLOTTER, iterative derivative of CLOT v., the phonetic series being cloter, cloþer, cloder: cf. the first two quots. below, and the equivalence of CLOD, CLOT.] To run together in clots, to coagulate, become clotty or lumpy.
[c. 1386. Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 1887. The clothered blood (v.r. clotered, clotred, cloþred).]
1499. Promp. Parv., 83 (Pynson), Cloderyn (MS. K. cloteryn, as blode, or other lyke), coagulo.
1530. Palsgr., 487/2. I clodder, lyke whaye or bloode whan it is colde, Je congele.
1656. Ridgley, Pract. Physick, 250. If Milk stay long in the Brests, the whey exhaleth, and the rest clodders.
1720. Robie, in Phil. Trans., XXXI. 122. Cause the Ashes to lump or clodder together.
1876. Whitby Gloss., Clodder, to form ingredients into a mass with some soft material. Clodder’d, aggregated.
Hence Cloddered ppl. a.
1570–6. Lambarde, Peramb. Kent (1826), 219. Time … hath purged quite Our former cloddred spots.
1675. Brooks, Gold. Key, Wks. 1867, V. 92. It made his blood startle out of his body in congealed cloddered heaps.
