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Definition of Catcher

1. Noun. (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher.

2. Noun. The position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws. "A catcher plays behind the plate"

Definition of Catcher

1. n. One who, or that which, catches.

Definition of Catcher

1. Noun. Someone or something that catches. ¹

2. Noun. (baseball) The player that squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher ¹

3. Noun. (Chiefly American English) (colloquial) The submissive partner in a homosexual relationship or sexual encounter between two men. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Catcher

1. one that catches [n -S] - See also: catches

Lexicographical Neighbors of Catcher

catch the sun catch up catch up with catch ups catch you later catch you on the flip side catchable catchall catchalls catchcries

catchcry catchdrain catchdrains catched catchen catcher's interference catcher's mask catcher's mitt catcher-upper catcher interference

catchers catches catches fire catches sight of catches up catchest catcheth catchflies catchfly

Literary usage of Catcher

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1895)
"As for my eldest son Edward catcher, being but young and sickly, ... Commission issued to the widow Margaret catcher during the minorities of John and ..."

2. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"This idea was scouted by one of their wise-heads, who asked, who was to The profession of the rat-catcher is an old and a universal one. ..."

3. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"Dust catcher and Gas Mains: From the down-comer the gas from the furnace passes ... The dust catcher may be looked upon as a great enlargement of the flue, ..."

4. The Four Visitations of Bershire Made and Taken by Thomas Benolte, Clarnceuc by Thomas Benolt, William Harvey, Henry Chitting, John Philipot, William Camden, Elias Ashmole, Sir Edward Bysshe, College of Arms (Great Britain) (1908)
"Bee it knowne unto all men by these presents that I John catcher of Binfield in the County Berks Knight do acknowledge and confesse myself to come of a ..."

5. Basket Ball and Indoor Baseball for Women by Helen Frost, Charles Digby Wardlaw (1920)
"It is a catcher's duty, not only to catch the balls pitched to her, ... A clever catcher can make a good pitcher out of very unpromising material, ..."

6. A History of British Birds: The Figures Engraved on Wood by Thomas Bewick, Ralph Beilby, Henry Cotes (1816)
"... dispersed over the globe, being met with in every country which travellers have visited. THE OYSTER-catcher. PIED OYSTER-catcher, SEA-PIE, OR OLIVE. ..."

7. Ornithological Biography by John James Audubon (1832)
"TRAILL'S FLY-catcher. MUSCICAPA TRAILLII. PLATE XLV. MALE. ... and the small Green-crested Fly-catcher, that the most careful inspection is necessary to ..."

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