Lack·ey n.; pl. Lackeys   An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower.
    Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey.   --Shak.
 Lackey caterpillar Zool., the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa; -- so called from its party-colored markings. The common European species (Clisiocampa neustria) is striped with blue, yellow, and red, with a white line on the back. The American species (Clisiocampa Americana and Clisiocampa sylvatica) are commonly called tent caterpillars. See Tent caterpillar, under Tent.
 Lackey moth Zool., the moth which produces the lackey caterpillar.


 Tent n.
 1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.
    Within his tent, large as is a barn.   --Chaucer.
 2. Her. The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
 Tent bed, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy.
 Tent caterpillar Zool., any one of several species of gregarious caterpillars which construct on trees large silken webs into which they retreat when at rest. Some of the species are very destructive to fruit trees. The most common American species is the larva of a bombycid moth (Clisiocampa Americana). Called also lackery caterpillar, and webworm.


 Web·worm n. Zool. Any one of various species of moths whose gregarious larvae eat the leaves of trees, and construct a large web to which they retreat when not feeding.
 Note: ☞ The most destructive webworms belong to the family Bombycidae, as the fall webworm (Hyphantria textor), which feeds on various fruit and forest trees, and the common tent caterpillar, which feeds on various fruit trees (see Tent caterpillar, under Tent.) The grapevine webworm is the larva of a geometrid moth (see Vine inchworm, under Vine).

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 tent caterpillar
      n : the larvae of moths that build communal silken webs in
          orchard and shade trees