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Definition of Catch out
1. Verb. Trap; especially in an error or in a reprehensible act. "She was found out when she tried to cash the stolen checks"
Definition of Catch out
1. Verb. To discover or expose as fake or insincere. ¹
2. Verb. (cricket) To put a batsman out by catching the batted ball before it touches the ground. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catch Out
Literary usage of Catch out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Hydraulics by James Ferguson (1776)
"... When the lever is pulled down, it lifts the catch out of the ratchet-wheel,
by means of the rope Q,Q> and gives the weight F liberty to ..."
2. Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Optics by James Ferguson, Charles Frederick Partington (1839)
"When the lever is pulled down, it lifts the catch out of the ratchet-wheel, by
means of the rope QQ, and gives the weight F liberty to descend : but if ..."
3. Life of James Ferguson, in a brief autobiographical account and further by James Ferguson (1870)
"When the lever is pulled down, it lifts the catch out of the ratchet-wheel, by
means of the rope QQ, and gives the weight F liberty to descend. ..."
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