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/kˈætəpˌɪlər/ /kˈætərpˌɪlər/ Listen

Caterpillar

noun

A wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth.

A large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work. Synonym: cat.

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"Caterpillar" Quotes from Famous Books

... rattling noise. Away to the right the train, like a luminous caterpillar, was threading across the night. The ...

— Sons and Lovers • David Herbert Lawrence

... stocks, must visit them as he goes by them. He is a drone that feeds upon the labours of the bee, and unhappily begotten that is born for no goodness. His staff and his scrip are his walking furniture, and what he lacks in meat he will have out in drink. He is a kind of caterpillar that spoils much good fruit, and an unprofitable creature to live in a commonwealth. He is seldom handsome and often noisome, always troublesome and never welcome. He prays for all and preys upon all; begins with blessing but ends ...

— Character Writings of the 17th Century • Various

... majority of these are simple geometrical designs which arise naturally out of the nature of the material; of more elaborate designs specially common are the hook-pattern (Fig. 58), the pigeon's eye (Fig. 59), and the caterpillar ...

— The Pagan Tribes of Borneo • Charles Hose and William McDougall

... can I; no more can anyone! Martha has got the miser spirit. She's as grasping as a caterpillar. I ought to ...

— Angels & Ministers • Laurence Housman

... settin' on a stone in the lower pastur', cryin' again, and he heerd another cur'us little voice. 'T wa'n't like the posy's voice, but 'twas a little, wooly, soft, fuzzy voice, and he see 't was a caterpillar a-talkin' to him. And the caterpillar says, in his fuzzy little voice, he says, "What you cryin' for, Reuben?" And the boy, he says, "I'm powerful scaret o' dyin', that's why," he says. And that ...

— Story-Tell Lib • Annie Trumbull Slosson

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