Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A coarse woolen fabric, yarn, or ribbon binding.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Flock or wadding of any fibrous material for stuffing, bombasting, and the like, used in the fifteenth century and later.
- n. A kind of lint for dressing wounds.
- n. Wool used for coarse embroidery, nearly like the modern crewel.
- n. A kind of worsted tape or ribbon.
- n. A kind of coarse woolen or worsted stuff. The variegated stuff used by the Highlanders of Scotland.
- n. A coarse serge.
- n. The larva of the caddis-fly. See caddis-worm.
Wiktionary
- n. The larva of a caddice fly that generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with debris.
- n. A rough woolen cloth; caddice
- n. A kind of worsted lace or ribbon.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A kind of worsted lace or ribbon.
Etymologies
- Probably from Middle English cadace, cotton wool (from Anglo-Norman, from Old Provençal cadarz) and from French cadis, woolen cloth (from Old Provençal). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Oh, please, sir, you said there was another cousin called the caddis-worm.”
Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies
“Smaller nymphs such as caddis pupae and micro mayflies are producing in the upper drifts with stonefly nymphs and large rubber legs producing in the lower drifts.”
“Many small creatures such as caddis-worms will eat the ova, and therefore a careful watch should be kept upon the hatching trays as it is marvellous how such creatures find their way in, in spite of all precautions.”
“My 3 yr. old daughter hooked a fish and began reeling it in, but when her hook came up it was attached to a prince nymph which was dropped below an elk hair caddis which was firmly lodged in the mouth of an albino rainbow trout.”
“The Wulff is a great pattern, but my favorite pattern is a tan caddis due to our HUGE caddis hatches almost all year.”
“I promise. vtbluegrass ... a caddis with a yellow foam post that rises over the wing so semi-blind anglers (no name) can track it in the riffles.”
“Maryland fishery regulators say the algae can smother aquatic insect larvae such as mayflies, stoneflies and caddis flies -- favorites among trout populations.”
The Washington Post: Footwear blamed for 'rock snot' invasion of Md. streams
“I have some great caddis hatches on my river, the SF of the Snake here in Idaho, and they can provide some great fishing.”
“Yes | No | Report from hengst wrote 3 days 18 hours ago elk hair caddis, rainbow warrior, black ice, wolly bugger, egg patterns, hairs ear nymph variation .. honestly I must have 10 thumbs thats about all I am good at .... soon I will take a professional class to get better so far all self taught”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘caddis’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
czardas, cytometer, cytology, cytheromania, cystoscope, cystolith, cyrenaic, cypseline, cyprinoid, cyphonism, cynophobia, cytogenesis and 1298 more...
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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Are we there yet?
These have some growing up to do.
colt, foal, kitten, cub, pup, heifer, larva, imago, veliger, trochophore, grub, maggot and 178 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Fabrics
Woven, knit and tatted fabrics. Other kinds of cloth, such as tapa and chamois are not included.
shikii, shantung, cotton, linen, tweed, wool, velour, velvet, velveteen, gabardine, chenille, silk and 550 more...
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Stuff It
Types of stuffing, edible or not.
excelsior, bat, feltrum, caddis, batting, wadding, bombast, dressing, padding, forcemeat, farcemeat, salpicon and 12 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for caddis.
knitandpurl "Dark-green water in lakes like this, and salt water with big waves and a fishy smell; and water coming loud over a dam, and water in brooks all full of caddis houses and green moss. And water in swamps with cat-tails growing out of it. And yellow mud-puddle water that you can wade in, with the mud as soft as butter between your toes."
The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright, p 129 of the 2008 paperback edition Jul 2, 2011
chained_bear "It was a pity that she hadn't a casting rod or tied flies—but still worth a try. Caddis flies weren't the only things that rose hungry at twilight, and voracious trout had been known to strike at almost anything that floated in front of them...."
—Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (New York: Bantam Dell, 2005), 603 Feb 1, 2010
chained_bear "... for the first signs of spring: the golden eagles followed by snow buntings, and then the ruby-crowned kinglets; hatches of caddis flies and mosquitoes on which the birds depend for food..."
—James Campbell, The Final Frontiersman (New York and London: Atria Books, 2004), 139 Sep 17, 2008