caddis/ˈkædɪs/EtymologyUnknown. See dialect forms caddew, caddy, cad-bait.nounThe larva of a caddis fly. They generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with debris.A rough woolen cloth; caddice.A 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:”