clabber

alternative clauber

1. uncountableSour or curdled milk.

   Even butter had proved beyond her means, for the milk she had tried to churn had never firmed up beyond the consistency of runny clabber.

   1997, Charles Frazier, chapter 2, in Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 25

2. uncountableWet clay or mud.

present singular third person clabbers · participle present clabbering · participle past clabbered · past clabbered · alternative clauber

1. To sour or curdle.

   They always had more milk than they needed and often entire buckets would clabber and one of her brothers would carry it out to the bunkhouse for the vaqueros.

   2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 148