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bootcatcher

bootcatcher 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 bootcatcher

pluralbootcatchers

Questions about bootcatcher

What is bootcatcher the alternative form of?
Bootcatcher is the alternative form of boot catcher.

Words near bootcatcher in the dictionary

  1. bootboy
  2. bootboys
  3. bootcamp
  4. bootcamper
  5. bootcamps
  6. bootcatcher
  7. bootcover
  8. bootcovers
  9. bootcut
  10. bootcuts
  11. bootdisk

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