caterpillarn.

Brit.

/ˈkatəpɪlə/, U.S.

/ˈkædərˌpɪlər/

Forms: Middle English catyrpel, 1500s catyrpyllar, catirpiller, 1600s catterpiller, 1600s–1700s catterpillar, 1500s– caterpiller, caterpillar.

Etymology: Catyrpel , in Promp. Parv., may be merely an error of the scribe for catyrpelour (or -er ); Palsgrave has the full form. Generally compared with the synonymous Old French chatepelose , lit. ‘hairy or downy cat’ (compare the Scots name hairy woubit ‘woolly bear’), of which the Old Northern French would be catepelose . This is a possible source, though no connection is historically established: the final sibilant might be treated in English as a plural formative, and the supposed singular catepelo would be readily associated with the well-known word piller , pilour , pillager, plunderer, spoiler. This is illustrated by the fact that in the figurative sense, piller and caterpiller are used synonymously in a large number of parallel passages (see sense 2). The regular earlier spelling was with -er; the corruption caterpillar (? after pillar), occasional in 17th cent., was adopted by Johnson, and has since prevailed. (Some think the word a direct compound of piller. The giving to hairy caterpillars a name derived from the cat, is seen not only in the French word cited, but also in Lombard gatta, gattola (cat, kitten), Swiss teufelskatz (devil's cat); compare also French chenille ( < canicula little dog), Milanese can, cagnon (dog, pup) a silk-worm (Wedgwood). Compare also catkin, French chaton, applied to things resembling hairy caterpillars.)

a. The larva of a butterfly or moth; sometimes extended to those of other insects, especially those of sawflies, which are also hairy.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva

malshaveOE

eruke1382

Bruchusa1398

mallyshaga1398

hockc1420

caterpillarc1440

eruca1692

slug1868

fetch-after1888

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva

niteOE

wormOE

grubc1420

canker1440

caterpillarc1440

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mad1573

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blote1657

vermicle1657

hexapod1668

grub-worm1752

truffle-worm1753

larva1768

larve1822

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Symphta or Phytophaga Sessiliventres > member of (saw-fly) > larva of or slug-worm

caterpillarc1440

slug1799

slug-worm1799

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 63 Catyrpel, wyrm among frute, erugo.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 203/2 Catyrpyllar worme, chatte pellevse.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxvii[i]. 46 He gaue their frutes vnto the catirpiller.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. iv. 48 Her holsome hearbs Swarming with caterpillers .

1611 Bible (King James) Joel ii. 25 The canker worme, and the caterpiller, and the palmer worme.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A8^v Catorpillers, smooth, as the green..or hirsute and rough, with much haire.

1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 60 in Sylva Cut off the Webbs of Caterpillars.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 227 The gardener's hand Picks from the colewort a green caterpillar.

1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue viii. 388 We know that the caterpiller and the butterfly are of the same family.

b. In full caterpillar tractor [Caterpillar, proprietary term] : a type of tractor which travels upon two endless steel bands, one on each side of the machine, to facilitate travel over very rough ground. Also caterpillar lorry, caterpillar tank, caterpillar wheel, etc.; caterpillar-wheeled adj.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicles with other means of motion > [noun] > tracked vehicle

caterpillar tractor1908

crawler tractor1922

swamp buggy1941

weasel1944

1908 Sci. Amer. 16 May 348/1 The ‘Caterpillar’ Tractor. For some months past the British military authorities have been experimenting with a new type of tractor for the haulage of heavy vehicles over rough and unstable ground... The soldiers at the Aldershot military center, where it is in operation, promptly christened it the ‘caterpillar’.

1911 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 28 Nov. 1079/2 The Holt Manufacturing Company, Stockton, Cal. Caterpillar. Gasolene, Steam, and Traction Engines, Harvesters, and Road-Working Machines.

1914 Illustr. London News 5 Sept. 369 A 21-centimetre siege-mortar—with ‘caterpillar’ wheels.

1915 W. S. Churchill Let. 5 Jan. in World Crisis (1923) II. 74 The caterpillar system would enable trenches to be crossed quite easily.

1915 W. S. Churchill Memorandum 3 Dec. in World Crisis (1923) II. 87 The Caterpillars will be so close to the enemy's line that they will be immune from his artillery.

1915 Literary Digest 4 Sept. 467/1 Government road-building throughout the interior has paved the way for automobiles, caterpillars and traction-engines.

1915 Trade Marks Jrnl. 8 Dec. 1224 Class 6. Caterpillar. Tractors and Traction Engines, being Machinery included in Class 6. Caterpillar Tractors, Limited,..Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.

1922 Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. From In-Salah the caterpillar-wheeled cars will cross the plateau of Tidikelt.

1922 Other Lands July 119/1 It has caterpillars and motor-ploughs.

1923 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 487 The arrangement of ‘caterpillar’ traction, with which they were fitted.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 50 Caterpillar, a familiar name for the tractor fitted with ‘girdles’, or flat slabs of metal, round their wheels, employed to haul heavy guns and large vehicles on soft ground.

1928 G. Haardt & L. Audouin-Dubreuil Black Journey i On the 28th of October, 1924, the eight caterpillar auto trucks left Colomb-Bechar.

1935 H. G. Wells Things to Come v. 33 Long lines of tanks and caterpillar lorries.

1935 Times 21 Dec. 9/3 The main body of the Italian troops, with light caterpillar tanks, advanced southwards.

1940 War Illustr. 16 Feb. 108 Caterpillar tractors built in the U.S.A. are awaiting shipment to France.

1958 Listener 19 June 1004/1 We were shown a huge iron machine on caterpillar tracks.

c. Also applied to the undercarriage of an aeroplane equipped with a similar device.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [adjective] > types of undercarriage

caterpillar1931

spatted1936

1931 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 35 492 (heading) Safety in flying and caterpillar undercarriages.

1931 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 35 492 The caterpillar landing wheel has an equivalent wheel diameter..with small resistance in flight.

1943 in Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. (1944) 48 (Abstr.) 73 (title) Caterpillar track landing gear.

2. figurative. A rapacious person; an extortioner; one who preys upon society. In early times distinctly transferred, and used synonymously with the earlier piller, but afterwards only figurative with conscious reference to the literal sense.

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the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [noun] > one who

wringera1300

askera1325

extortionerc1375

exactor1382

scaffer?a1513

shaver1534

caterpillar1541

bloodsucker?1555

suck-purse1586

griper1587

extortor1590

exacter1596

extorter1605

barathrum1609

wreather1648

shark1713

vampire1741

bleeder1846

flayer1865

extortionist1885

Shylock1894

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > spoiler or plunderer > [noun]

riflera1350

ravenerc1384

pillerc1385

preyerc1390

raptora1398

peelera1425

despoiler1467

spulyierc1475

pillardc1485

ruggerc1485

pollera1513

booty-fellow1530

spoiler1535

caterpillar1541

kitea1556

ransacker?1576

predator1581

lurdan1589

worm1591

scraper1598

pillager?1611

ravager1611

bird of preya1616

depredator1626

plunderer1639

expilator1658

shark1713

depredationist1828

spoliator1831

rapiner1843

ravisher1851

?1550 T. Becon Jewel of Joye sig. H.1^v Pollers and pillers of the contrie.

1475 Bk. Noblesse (1860) 31 Pilleris, robberis, extorcioneris.

1539 Bible (Great) 1 Cor. vi. 10 Nether theues, nether couetouse..nether pyllers.]

1541 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) AAa iij The Augustine friers in London..those Caterpillers and blouddy beastes.

1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (xi.) f. 191^v Extorsioner and pieller of the peple.]

a1555 H. Latimer 27 Serm. (1562) ii. f. 40 The children of this worlde (as couetous persons, extorsioners, oppressoures, caterpyllers, vsurers).

1579 Gosson (title) The Schoole of Abuse, Conteining a plesaunt inuectiue against Poets, Pipers, Plaiers, Iesters, and such like Caterpillers of a Commonwelth.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 417 Empson and Dudley (cater-pillers of the common-wealth, hatefull to all good people).

1631 High Comm. Cases (1886) 259 For his saying against the officers that they are caterpillers I let that passe.

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) When we see a company of Lacqueys at the tail of a coach, we say, There goes a Bunch of Caterpillers.

1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xl. 211 Such nurseries of drones and caterpillars, to prey upon it.

1826 W. Scott Malachi Malagrowther ii. 66 We have become the caterpillars of the island, instead of its pillars.

3. black caterpillar: (a) the larva of the turnip sawfly; (b) a fly or an imitation of it used as a bait in angling.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > real or imitation flies

stone-flya1450

ant-fly1653

hawthorn-fly1653

mayfly1653

oak fly1653

wall-fly1653

pismire-fly1670

cow-lady1676

mayfly1676

owl fly1676

brown1681

cow-turd-fly1684

trout-fly1746

orl fly1747

hazel fly?1758

iron-blue fly?1758

red spinner?1758

Welshman's button?1758

buzz1760

Yellow Sally1766

ash-fly1787

black caterpillar1787

cow-dung fly1787

sharn-fly1787

spinner1787

woodcock-fly1787

huzzard1799

knop-fly1799

mackerel1799

watchet1799

iron blue1826

knob fly1829

mackerel fly1829

March brown1837

cinnamon fly1867

quill gnat1867

sedge-fly1867

cob-fly1870

woodcock wing1888

sedge1889

olive1895

quill1899

nymph1910

green weenie1977

Montana1987

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Symphta or Phytophaga Sessiliventres > family Tenthredinidae > athalia centifolia (turnip-sawfly) > larva of

black jack1807

nigger1840

black caterpillar1848

nigger caterpillar1850

turnip-nigger1893

1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 113 The black Caterpillar comes on about the beginning of May..if winds and clouds appear, they then grow weak for want of the sun, and fall upon the waters in great quantities. The wings are made from a feather out of a jay's wing, the body of an ostrich's feather.

1848 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 6. 329 The larva of Athalia centifolæ..named the nigger or black caterpillar, is an enemy..much dreaded by the agriculturist..In 1780 it was abundant in Northumberland.

4. Herbalism.

a. A name given to the leguminous plants of the genus Scorpiurus from the shape of their pods.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > other leguminous plants

peaseOE

vetchc1400

hatchet vetch1548

mock liquorice1548

scorpion's tail1548

ax-fitch1562

ax-seed1562

axwort1562

treacle clover1562

lady's finger1575

bird's-foot1578

goat's rue1578

horseshoe1578

caterpillar1597

kidney-vetch1597

horseshoe-vetch1640

goat rue1657

kidney-fetch1671

galega1685

stanch1726

scorpion senna1731

Dolichos1753

Sophora1753

partridge pea1787

bauhinia1790

coronilla1793

swamp pea-tree1796

Mysore thorn1814

devil's shoestring1817

pencil flower1817

rattlebox1817

Canavalia1828

milk plant1830

joint-vetch1836

milk pea1843

prairie clover1857

oxytrope1858

rattleweed1864

wart-herb1864

snail-flower1866

poison pea1884

masu1900

money bush1924

Townsville stylo1970

orange bird's-foot2007

1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 267 Our English gentlewomen and others do call it Caterpillers, of the similitude it hath with the shape of that canker worme called a caterpiller.

1672 W. Hughes Flower Garden (1683) 8 Snails and Caterpillers..raised from Seed sowed in April..cannot properly be called Flowers, but they have very pretty heads.

1714 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 212 Prickley Catterpillars.

1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 170.

b. By Gerard Myosotis palustris, the true Forget-me-not or Scorpion-grass, ‘is included in the same chapter and under the same name’ (Britten and Holland Plant-n.).

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1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Caterpillar, a name for Scorpiurus.

5. A member of the Caterpillar Club founded by Leslie Leroy Irvin in 1922 (see quots. 1930¹, 1930²).

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society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > parachutist > one who has saved his life by parachute

caterpillar1925

1925 Literary Digest 26 Sept. 50 (title) Are you eligible for the Caterpillar club?

1930 C. Dixon Parachuting vii. 61 Each caterpillar has saved his life with a parachute.

1930 Engineering 26 Dec. 811/3 The Caterpillar Club (this being the name given to persons who have saved their lives by the agency of a parachute).

Compounds

C1. Simple attributive. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a caterpillar.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species (1878) iv. 67 The caterpillar and cocoon stages.

1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 95 The caterpillar wooden bridges crawling with innumerable legs across the flats of Charles.

C2.

caterpillar-catcher n. a sub-family of shrikes which feed on caterpillars.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Laniidae (shrike) > other types of

caterpillar shrike1841

caterpillar-catcher1880

pityriasis1890

1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life 407 Caterpillar-catchers..abundant in the old-world tropics.

caterpillar-eater n. (a) the larva of an ichneumon fly; (b) = caterpillar-catcher n.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) One of the species of these caterpillar eaters.

caterpillar-fly n. = sense 3 above.

1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) II. x. 303 Black-caterpillar-fly.

caterpillar-like adj.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [adjective] > of larva

caterpillar-like1611

onisciform1826

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Chenillé, Caterpiller-like.

1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. ix. 237 A fleshy, caterpillar-like body.

caterpillar-plant n. = 4 above.

caterpillar shrike n.

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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Laniidae (shrike) > other types of

caterpillar shrike1841

caterpillar-catcher1880

pityriasis1890

1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 415/1 The Ceblepyrinæ, or Caterpillar Shrikes.

caterpillar shroud n.

1857 R. W. Emerson Poems (rev. ed.) 126 Pondering shadows, colors, clouds, Grass-buds, and caterpillar-shrouds [1847 caterpillars' shrouds].

Derivatives

ˈcaterpillared adj. (a) fitted with a caterpillar; (b) fitted with caterpillar tracks.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicles with other means of motion > [adjective] > having tracks

caterpillared1917

tracked1926

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 111 The Troute..deceiued with a Catterpillerd hooke.

1917 Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 379/2 New armoured cars, caterpillared and powerfully armed, would make their bow to Brother Boche.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	caterpillar
释义	caterpillarn. Brit. /ˈkatəpɪlə/, U.S. /ˈkædərˌpɪlər/ Forms: Middle English catyrpel, 1500s catyrpyllar, catirpiller, 1600s catterpiller, 1600s–1700s catterpillar, 1500s– caterpiller, caterpillar. Etymology: Catyrpel , in Promp. Parv., may be merely an error of the scribe for catyrpelour (or -er ); Palsgrave has the full form. Generally compared with the synonymous Old French chatepelose , lit. ‘hairy or downy cat’ (compare the Scots name hairy woubit ‘woolly bear’), of which the Old Northern French would be catepelose . This is a possible source, though no connection is historically established: the final sibilant might be treated in English as a plural formative, and the supposed singular catepelo would be readily associated with the well-known word piller , pilour , pillager, plunderer, spoiler. This is illustrated by the fact that in the figurative sense, piller and caterpiller are used synonymously in a large number of parallel passages (see sense 2). The regular earlier spelling was with -er; the corruption caterpillar (? after pillar), occasional in 17th cent., was adopted by Johnson, and has since prevailed. (Some think the word a direct compound of piller. The giving to hairy caterpillars a name derived from the cat, is seen not only in the French word cited, but also in Lombard gatta, gattola (cat, kitten), Swiss teufelskatz (devil's cat); compare also French chenille ( < canicula little dog), Milanese can, cagnon (dog, pup) a silk-worm (Wedgwood). Compare also catkin, French chaton, applied to things resembling hairy caterpillars.) 1. a. The larva of a butterfly or moth; sometimes extended to those of other insects, especially those of sawflies, which are also hairy. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva malshaveOE eruke1382 Bruchusa1398 mallyshaga1398 hockc1420 caterpillarc1440 eruca1692 slug1868 fetch-after1888 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva niteOE wormOE grubc1420 canker1440 caterpillarc1440 cankerworm1530 mad1573 bug1594 blote1657 vermicle1657 hexapod1668 grub-worm1752 truffle-worm1753 larva1768 larve1822 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Symphta or Phytophaga Sessiliventres > member of (saw-fly) > larva of or slug-worm caterpillarc1440 slug1799 slug-worm1799 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 63 Catyrpel, wyrm among frute, erugo. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 203/2 Catyrpyllar worme, chatte pellevse. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxvii[i]. 46 He gaue their frutes vnto the catirpiller. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. iv. 48 Her holsome hearbs Swarming with caterpillers . View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Joel ii. 25 The canker worme, and the caterpiller, and the palmer worme. View more context for this quotation 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A8^v Catorpillers, smooth, as the green..or hirsute and rough, with much haire. 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 60 in Sylva Cut off the Webbs of Caterpillars. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 227 The gardener's hand Picks from the colewort a green caterpillar. 1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue viii. 388 We know that the caterpiller and the butterfly are of the same family. b. In full caterpillar tractor [Caterpillar, proprietary term] : a type of tractor which travels upon two endless steel bands, one on each side of the machine, to facilitate travel over very rough ground. Also caterpillar lorry, caterpillar tank, caterpillar wheel, etc.; caterpillar-wheeled adj. ΘΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicles with other means of motion > [noun] > tracked vehicle caterpillar tractor1908 crawler tractor1922 swamp buggy1941 weasel1944 1908 Sci. Amer. 16 May 348/1 The ‘Caterpillar’ Tractor. For some months past the British military authorities have been experimenting with a new type of tractor for the haulage of heavy vehicles over rough and unstable ground... The soldiers at the Aldershot military center, where it is in operation, promptly christened it the ‘caterpillar’. 1911 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 28 Nov. 1079/2 The Holt Manufacturing Company, Stockton, Cal. Caterpillar. Gasolene, Steam, and Traction Engines, Harvesters, and Road-Working Machines. 1914 Illustr. London News 5 Sept. 369 A 21-centimetre siege-mortar—with ‘caterpillar’ wheels. 1915 W. S. Churchill Let. 5 Jan. in World Crisis (1923) II. 74 The caterpillar system would enable trenches to be crossed quite easily. 1915 W. S. Churchill Memorandum 3 Dec. in World Crisis (1923) II. 87 The Caterpillars will be so close to the enemy's line that they will be immune from his artillery. 1915 Literary Digest 4 Sept. 467/1 Government road-building throughout the interior has paved the way for automobiles, caterpillars and traction-engines. 1915 Trade Marks Jrnl. 8 Dec. 1224 Class 6. Caterpillar. Tractors and Traction Engines, being Machinery included in Class 6. Caterpillar Tractors, Limited,..Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C. 1922 Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. From In-Salah the caterpillar-wheeled cars will cross the plateau of Tidikelt. 1922 Other Lands July 119/1 It has caterpillars and motor-ploughs. 1923 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 487 The arrangement of ‘caterpillar’ traction, with which they were fitted. 1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 50 Caterpillar, a familiar name for the tractor fitted with ‘girdles’, or flat slabs of metal, round their wheels, employed to haul heavy guns and large vehicles on soft ground. 1928 G. Haardt & L. Audouin-Dubreuil Black Journey i On the 28th of October, 1924, the eight caterpillar auto trucks left Colomb-Bechar. 1935 H. G. Wells Things to Come v. 33 Long lines of tanks and caterpillar lorries. 1935 Times 21 Dec. 9/3 The main body of the Italian troops, with light caterpillar tanks, advanced southwards. 1940 War Illustr. 16 Feb. 108 Caterpillar tractors built in the U.S.A. are awaiting shipment to France. 1958 Listener 19 June 1004/1 We were shown a huge iron machine on caterpillar tracks. c. Also applied to the undercarriage of an aeroplane equipped with a similar device. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [adjective] > types of undercarriage caterpillar1931 spatted1936 1931 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 35 492 (heading) Safety in flying and caterpillar undercarriages. 1931 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 35 492 The caterpillar landing wheel has an equivalent wheel diameter..with small resistance in flight. 1943 in Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. (1944) 48 (Abstr.) 73 (title) Caterpillar track landing gear. 2. figurative. A rapacious person; an extortioner; one who preys upon society. In early times distinctly transferred, and used synonymously with the earlier piller, but afterwards only figurative with conscious reference to the literal sense. ΘΠ the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [noun] > one who wringera1300 askera1325 extortionerc1375 exactor1382 scaffer?a1513 shaver1534 caterpillar1541 bloodsucker?1555 suck-purse1586 griper1587 extortor1590 exacter1596 extorter1605 barathrum1609 wreather1648 shark1713 vampire1741 bleeder1846 flayer1865 extortionist1885 Shylock1894 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > spoiler or plunderer > [noun] riflera1350 ravenerc1384 pillerc1385 preyerc1390 raptora1398 peelera1425 despoiler1467 spulyierc1475 pillardc1485 ruggerc1485 pollera1513 booty-fellow1530 spoiler1535 caterpillar1541 kitea1556 ransacker?1576 predator1581 lurdan1589 worm1591 scraper1598 pillager?1611 ravager1611 bird of preya1616 depredator1626 plunderer1639 expilator1658 shark1713 depredationist1828 spoliator1831 rapiner1843 ravisher1851 ?1550 T. Becon Jewel of Joye sig. H.1^v Pollers and pillers of the contrie. 1475 Bk. Noblesse (1860) 31 Pilleris, robberis, extorcioneris. 1539 Bible (Great) 1 Cor. vi. 10 Nether theues, nether couetouse..nether pyllers.] 1541 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) AAa iij The Augustine friers in London..those Caterpillers and blouddy beastes. 1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (xi.) f. 191^v Extorsioner and pieller of the peple.] a1555 H. Latimer 27 Serm. (1562) ii. f. 40 The children of this worlde (as couetous persons, extorsioners, oppressoures, caterpyllers, vsurers). 1579 Gosson (title) The Schoole of Abuse, Conteining a plesaunt inuectiue against Poets, Pipers, Plaiers, Iesters, and such like Caterpillers of a Commonwelth. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 417 Empson and Dudley (cater-pillers of the common-wealth, hatefull to all good people). 1631 High Comm. Cases (1886) 259 For his saying against the officers that they are caterpillers I let that passe. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) When we see a company of Lacqueys at the tail of a coach, we say, There goes a Bunch of Caterpillers. 1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xl. 211 Such nurseries of drones and caterpillars, to prey upon it. 1826 W. Scott Malachi Malagrowther ii. 66 We have become the caterpillars of the island, instead of its pillars. 3. black caterpillar: (a) the larva of the turnip sawfly; (b) a fly or an imitation of it used as a bait in angling. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > real or imitation flies stone-flya1450 ant-fly1653 hawthorn-fly1653 mayfly1653 oak fly1653 wall-fly1653 pismire-fly1670 cow-lady1676 mayfly1676 owl fly1676 brown1681 cow-turd-fly1684 trout-fly1746 orl fly1747 hazel fly?1758 iron-blue fly?1758 red spinner?1758 Welshman's button?1758 buzz1760 Yellow Sally1766 ash-fly1787 black caterpillar1787 cow-dung fly1787 sharn-fly1787 spinner1787 woodcock-fly1787 huzzard1799 knop-fly1799 mackerel1799 watchet1799 iron blue1826 knob fly1829 mackerel fly1829 March brown1837 cinnamon fly1867 quill gnat1867 sedge-fly1867 cob-fly1870 woodcock wing1888 sedge1889 olive1895 quill1899 nymph1910 green weenie1977 Montana1987 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Symphta or Phytophaga Sessiliventres > family Tenthredinidae > athalia centifolia (turnip-sawfly) > larva of black jack1807 nigger1840 black caterpillar1848 nigger caterpillar1850 turnip-nigger1893 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 113 The black Caterpillar comes on about the beginning of May..if winds and clouds appear, they then grow weak for want of the sun, and fall upon the waters in great quantities. The wings are made from a feather out of a jay's wing, the body of an ostrich's feather. 1848 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 6. 329 The larva of Athalia centifolæ..named the nigger or black caterpillar, is an enemy..much dreaded by the agriculturist..In 1780 it was abundant in Northumberland. 4. Herbalism. a. A name given to the leguminous plants of the genus Scorpiurus from the shape of their pods. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > other leguminous plants peaseOE vetchc1400 hatchet vetch1548 mock liquorice1548 scorpion's tail1548 ax-fitch1562 ax-seed1562 axwort1562 treacle clover1562 lady's finger1575 bird's-foot1578 goat's rue1578 horseshoe1578 caterpillar1597 kidney-vetch1597 horseshoe-vetch1640 goat rue1657 kidney-fetch1671 galega1685 stanch1726 scorpion senna1731 Dolichos1753 Sophora1753 partridge pea1787 bauhinia1790 coronilla1793 swamp pea-tree1796 Mysore thorn1814 devil's shoestring1817 pencil flower1817 rattlebox1817 Canavalia1828 milk plant1830 joint-vetch1836 milk pea1843 prairie clover1857 oxytrope1858 rattleweed1864 wart-herb1864 snail-flower1866 poison pea1884 masu1900 money bush1924 Townsville stylo1970 orange bird's-foot2007 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 267 Our English gentlewomen and others do call it Caterpillers, of the similitude it hath with the shape of that canker worme called a caterpiller. 1672 W. Hughes Flower Garden (1683) 8 Snails and Caterpillers..raised from Seed sowed in April..cannot properly be called Flowers, but they have very pretty heads. 1714 J. Petiver in Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 212 Prickley Catterpillars. 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 170. b. By Gerard Myosotis palustris, the true Forget-me-not or Scorpion-grass, ‘is included in the same chapter and under the same name’ (Britten and Holland Plant-n.). ΚΠ 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Caterpillar, a name for Scorpiurus. 5. A member of the Caterpillar Club founded by Leslie Leroy Irvin in 1922 (see quots. 1930¹, 1930²). ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > parachutist > one who has saved his life by parachute caterpillar1925 1925 Literary Digest 26 Sept. 50 (title) Are you eligible for the Caterpillar club? 1930 C. Dixon Parachuting vii. 61 Each caterpillar has saved his life with a parachute. 1930 Engineering 26 Dec. 811/3 The Caterpillar Club (this being the name given to persons who have saved their lives by the agency of a parachute). Compounds C1. Simple attributive. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a caterpillar. Π 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species (1878) iv. 67 The caterpillar and cocoon stages. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 95 The caterpillar wooden bridges crawling with innumerable legs across the flats of Charles. C2. caterpillar-catcher n. a sub-family of shrikes which feed on caterpillars. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Laniidae (shrike) > other types of caterpillar shrike1841 caterpillar-catcher1880 pityriasis1890 1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life 407 Caterpillar-catchers..abundant in the old-world tropics. caterpillar-eater n. (a) the larva of an ichneumon fly; (b) = caterpillar-catcher n. Π 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) One of the species of these caterpillar eaters. caterpillar-fly n. = sense 3 above. Π 1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) II. x. 303 Black-caterpillar-fly. caterpillar-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [adjective] > of larva caterpillar-like1611 onisciform1826 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Chenillé, Caterpiller-like. 1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. ix. 237 A fleshy, caterpillar-like body. caterpillar-plant n. = 4 above. caterpillar shrike n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Laniidae (shrike) > other types of caterpillar shrike1841 caterpillar-catcher1880 pityriasis1890 1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 415/1 The Ceblepyrinæ, or Caterpillar Shrikes. caterpillar shroud n. Π 1857 R. W. Emerson Poems (rev. ed.) 126 Pondering shadows, colors, clouds, Grass-buds, and caterpillar-shrouds [1847 caterpillars' shrouds]. Derivatives ˈcaterpillared adj. (a) fitted with a caterpillar; (b) fitted with caterpillar tracks. ΘΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicles with other means of motion > [adjective] > having tracks caterpillared1917 tracked1926 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 111 The Troute..deceiued with a Catterpillerd hooke. 1917 Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 379/2 New armoured cars, caterpillared and powerfully armed, would make their bow to Brother Boche. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021). caterpillarv. Etymology: < caterpillar n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcaterpillar. To move like a caterpillar or on caterpillar tracks (see caterpillar n. 1b). ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > in a tank caterpillar1916 tank1939 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > move or go along [verb (intransitive)] > go along on tracks caterpillar1916 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > move or go along [verb (transitive)] > make (its way) on tracks caterpillar1916 1916 Daily Sketch 23 Nov. 3/1 Three tanks started... One of the machines moved..caterpillaring its laborious way up the slope. 1928 Daily Express 2 July 3 These ‘tank’ drivers have developed enormous calf muscles, due to caterpillaring over rough country. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.c1440v.1916
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