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boot catchers

boot catchers is the plural 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

Questions about boot catchers

What is boot catchers the plural of?
Boot catchers is the plural of boot catcher.

Words near boot catchers in the dictionary

  1. boot boy
  2. boot boys
  3. boot camp
  4. boot camps
  5. boot catcher
  6. boot catchers
  7. boot closer
  8. boot closers
  9. boot crimp
  10. boot crimps
  11. boot cut

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