Caddis

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  • noun. A coarse woolen fabric, yarn, or ribbon binding.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Flock or wadding of any fibrous material for stuffing, bombasting, and the like, used in the fifteenth century and later.
  • noun. A kind of lint for dressing wounds.
  • noun. Wool used for coarse embroidery, nearly like the modern crewel.
  • noun. A kind of worsted tape or ribbon.
  • noun. A kind of coarse woolen or worsted stuff. The variegated stuff used by the Highlanders of Scotland.
  • noun. A coarse serge.
  • noun. The larva of the caddis-fly. See caddis-worm.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A kind of worsted lace or ribbon.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The larva of a caddice fly that generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with debris.
  • noun. A rough woolen cloth; caddice
  • noun. A kind of worsted lace or ribbon.
  • Word Usage
    ""Oh, please, sir, you said there was another cousin called the caddis-worm.""
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