What is "caddie"

Caddie \Cad"die\, n. [Written also caddy, cadie, cady, and cawdy.] [See Cadet.]

1. A cadet. [Obs. Scot.]

2. A lad; young fellow. [Scot.]
   --Burns.

3. One who does errands or other odd jobs. [Scot.]

4. An attendant who carries a golf player's clubs, tees his ball, etc.

Cadie \Cad"ie\, Caddie \Cad"die\, n. A Scotch errand boy, porter, or messenger. [Written also cady.]

Every Scotchman, from the peer to the cadie.
--Macaulay.

1630s, Scottish form of French cadet (see cadet). Originally "person who runs errands;" meaning of "golfer's assistant" is 1851. A letter from Edinburgh c.1730 describes the city's extensive and semi-organized "Cawdys, a very useful Black-Guard, who attend ... publick Places to go at Errands; and though they are Wretches, that in Rags lye upon the Stairs and in the Streets at Night, yet are they often considerably trusted .... This Corps has a kind of Captain ... presiding over them, whom they call the Constable of the Cawdys."

Etymology 1 n. 1 A lightweight freestanding rack designed to hold accessories. 2 A lightweight wheeled cart, often fitted with shelves or racks. 3 A small box usually used for tea 4 (alternative form of cadie nodot=yes English) (Scottish errand boy) 5 (context golf English) A golfer's assistant and adviser. vb. (context intransitive English) To serve as a golf caddie. Etymology 2

n. 1 A small tray with a handle and compartments for holding items. 2 A small wheeled cart attached to a bicycle and used as a conveyance for a child. 3 A tea caddy.

1. n. an attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player [syn: golf caddie]

2. v. act as a caddie and carry clubs for a player [syn: caddy]

3. [also: caddying, caddies, caddied]

Caddie is a mid-range computer-assisted draughting (CAD) software package for 2D and 3D design. It is used primarily by architects, but has tools for surveyors and mechanical, civil and construction engineers. It was initially designed as an electronic drawing board, using concepts and tools clearly related to a physical board.

Caddie requires a USB dongle. or software activation. Without the dongle or activation, the program can be used as a viewer and plot station for any DWG drawings, but it can't save drawings after the 14-day evaluation has expired. Caddie works on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Caddie is an Australian film directed by Donald Crombie and produced by Anthony Buckley. Released in 1976, it is representative of the Australian film renaissance which occurred during that decade. Set mainly in Sydney during the 1920s and 1930s, including the Great Depression, it portrays the life of a young middle class woman struggling to raise two children after her marriage breaks up. Based on Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid, a partly fictitious autobiography of Catherine "Caddie" Edmonds, it made Helen Morse a local star and earned Jacki Weaver and Melissa Jaffer each an Australian Film Institute Award.

A caddie, also spelt "cadie", was an urban occupation in 18th century Scotland, best described, albeit inadequately, as a "messenger-boy". It is neither clear exactly when it originated, nor when it ceased to exist. Although the Scottish National Dictionary states its occurrence "in Edinburgh and other large towns", printed sources refer specifically to Edinburgh. The name appears to have been a borrowing of the military term 'cadet', though pronounced as the original French word cadet. While the historical record provides no explanation for the choice of that particular term, it may be that a caddie's relationship to his employer was seen as resembling that of a military cadet attached to an officer, whose commands he was expected to obey (see Robert Chambers' description below).