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catcher Definition

catcher (-ər)

noun

☆ Baseball the player stationed behind home plate, who catches pitched balls not hit away by the batter

catcher Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • make: Make a stunning light catcher to hang at a window too!
  • see: Saw an oyster catcher on the tidal stretch below Brownshill Lock.
  • have: If they are on a base they have a catcher, but they can't see the bowler bowling and lose interest.
  • employ: The Lord Mayor is Chairman of our Management Committee We employ one full time rat catcher ( all other workers are volunteers ).

Adjective modifier

  • real: They all have extra bright LED's which make the badges a real eye catcher, great for any party.
  • close: From here, the High Easter innings collapsed and with David Coyle bowling to a field of close catchers, wickets began to tumble.
  • light: Make a stunning light catcher to hang at a window too!
  • good: There weren't many better slip catchers, either.
  • professional: This is best carried our by a professional mole catcher as the poisons used are licensed and very dangerous to other animals and birds.

Modifies a noun

  • tray: The standard catcher tray has a sensor in the base.
  • boat: The numbers of wounds per whale did not vary between catcher boats, the average being 1.2.

Noun used with modifier

  • oyster: While here you may also observe oyster catchers, geese and the endemic steamer duck along the rocky shores.
  • mole: A mole catcher was employed three times in spring and autumn 2005 and spring 2006.
  • rat: Apparently, rat catchers were held in high esteem in the community due to the locals ' fear of the Black Plague.
  • dream: DREAM CATCHERS The Plains Indians say you hang them by the window or at the head of your bed.
  • ash: It boasts a high-capacity ash catcher, making cleaning the barbecue much less of a hassle.
  • spider: The good news is that we found the spider catcher vacuum thingy.

Possessives

  • mitt: I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands.

Preposition: in

  • rye: I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all.

Preposition: for

  • lover: Made in the UK and not tested on animals. £ 8.25 Personalized Feline Friends Light Catcher A light catcher for cat lovers.
catcher Quotes

Anyway,I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's aroundönobody big, I meanö except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff.What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the clifföI mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.

—Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)