Catcher
['kætʃə] or ['kætʃɚ]
Definition
(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 needs a lot of protective equipment'; 'a catcher plays behind the plate'.
(noun.) (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher.
Checked by Debbie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, catches.
(n.) The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball.
Checker: Phelps
Examples
- Besides, I don't see no kind of 'casion for me to be hunter and catcher for other folks, neither. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Snake-catcher is what I call them, and Teddy is amazing quick on cobras. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Northern marshals became slave-catchers, and Northern courts had to contribute to the support and protection of the institution. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Well, it is a very ancient remedy--the old remedy of the viper-catchers, I believe, replied the doctor. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Through an introduction from Mr. Jay Gould, who then controlled the Union Pacific, Edison was allowed to ride on the cow-catchers of the locomotives. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Are you the man that will shelter a poor woman and child from slave-catchers? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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