caddis

plural caddises

1. countableuncountableThe larva of a caddis fly. They generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with debris.

   However, even during times when the river is clear, [brown drakes'] presence is overshadowed by the overwhelming waves of caddis that are on the water and emerging at the same time.

   2013, Boots Allen, Snake River Flies: Eighty Years of Proven Patterns for a ...

plural caddises

1. countableuncountableA rough woolen cloth; caddice.
2. countableuncountableA kind of worsted lace or ribbon.

   Hee hath Ribbons of all the colours i’ th Rainebow; Points, more then all the Lawyers in Bohemia, can learnedly handle, though they come to him by th’ grosse: Inckles, Caddysses, Cambrickes, Lawnes:

   c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], page 293