The difference between Litter and Palanquin
When used as nouns, litter means a platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol, whereas palanquin means a covered type of litter for a stretched-out passenger, carried on four poles on the shoulders of four or more bearers, as formerly used (also by colonials) in eastern asia.
Litter is also verb with the meaning: to drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
check bellow for the other definitions of Litter and Palanquin
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Litter as a noun (countable):
A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.
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Litter as a noun (collective, countable):
The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.
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Litter as a noun (uncountable):
Material used as bedding for animals.
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Litter as a noun (uncountable):
Collectively, items discarded on the ground.
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Litter as a noun (uncountable):
Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray
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Litter as a noun (uncountable):
Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.
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Litter as a noun:
A covering of straw for plants.
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Litter as a verb (intransitive):
To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
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Litter as a verb (transitive):
To scatter carelessly about.
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Litter as a verb (transitive):
To strew (a place) with scattered articles.
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Litter as a verb (transitive):
To give birth to, used of animals.
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Litter as a verb (intransitive):
To produce a litter of young.
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Litter as a verb (transitive):
To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.
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Litter as a verb (intransitive):
To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.
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Palanquin as a noun:
A covered type of litter for a stretched-out passenger, carried on four poles on the shoulders of four or more bearers, as formerly used (also by colonials) in eastern Asia.