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boot-catcher

boot-catcher is the alternative form of boot catcher.

Meaning of boot catcher

Noun

boot catcher (plural boot catchers)

  1. (historical) A person employed at an inn to take off people's boots and clean them.
    • Where's the Boot-catcher gone? I cannot get any thing to eat here, nor my boots, to go any where elſe.1767, David Garrick, A Peep Behind the Curtain

Forms of boot-catcher

pluralboot-catchers

Questions about boot-catcher

What is boot-catcher the alternative form of?
Boot-catcher is the alternative form of boot catcher.

Words near boot-catcher in the dictionary

  1. boot verbs
  2. boot-black
  3. boot-blacks
  4. boot-boy
  5. boot-boys
  6. boot-catcher
  7. boot-cut
  8. boot-cuts
  9. boot-grease
  10. boot-greases
  11. boot-hook

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