caperers

Noun

caperer (plural caperers)

1. One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances.
   • The nimble caperer on the cord.1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Fourteenth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […]...
2. A caddis fly larva.
   • The fairies had washed him, you see, in the swift river, so thoroughly, that not only his dirt, but his whole husk and shell had been washed quite off him, and the pretty little real Tom was washed out of the inside of it, and swam away, as a caddis does when its case of stones and silk is bored...1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby