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caterpillar ((2)) 
n. a bed made from a collection of evergreen boughs or brush.
- 1943 Night was now coming on fast. Dan cut a withe with a fork on it and went into the brush to make a balsam "caterpillar." This consisted of radiating balsam-sprays, hooked round the withe, in layers above the fork. It was dark by the time the caterpillar was three feet high, a thick green bundle of balsam fronds two feet in diameter.
- 1943 Night was now coming on fast. Dan cut a withe with a fork on it and went into the brush to make a balsam "caterpillar." This consisted of radiating balsam-sprays, hooked round the withe, in layers above the fork. It was dark by the time the caterpillar was three feet high, a thick green bundle of balsam fronds two feet in diameter.