catchern.

Brit.

/ˈkatʃə/, U.S.

/ˈkɛtʃər/,

/ˈkætʃər/

Forms: see catch v. and -er suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: catch v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < catch v. + -er suffix¹. Compare Old French, Middle French (northern) cacheor kind of horse used for chasing or hunting (mid 13th cent.), variant of chaceor chaser n.¹ (compare sense 1b at that entry).Attested earlier in surnames, although it is unclear whether these should be interpreted as showing the Middle English word or perhaps an otherwise unattested Anglo-Norman formation: Ricardus Kaccher (1200), Jordan Cachere (1221), Will. le Cachor (1275), Thom. Cachour , Ric. Cachiere (both 1327). Compare also Stephanus le Chacur (1204: see chaser n.¹).

†1. A person who chases or hunts animals; a hunter. Also: a driver of animals. Cf. catch v. 37. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > herding of cattle > cowherd

cowherda1000

oxherd1281

geldherd1284

nowtherd1296

neatherd1301

drover1384

catcherc1400

caller?a1500

ox-boy1580

neatress1586

harrier1591

cowherdess1611

spurn-cow1614

neatherdess1648

cowgirl1753

herds-woman1818

oxman1820

ranchero1825

topsman1825

vaquero1826

herdsmaiden1829

overlander1841

cattle-herd1845

cowboy1849

buckaroo1852

stock-rider1862

pointer1869

night-herder1870

puncher1870

bull-puncher1872

outrider1872

cowpuncher1873

range man1875

cow-puncher1878

herd-boy1878

cow-girl1884

trail-herd1885

trail boss1890

nighthawk1903

point man1903

swing man1903

top hand1912

charro1926

waddy1927

cattle-puncher1928

cowpoke1928

paniolo1947

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1139 Þenne þise cacheres þat couþe, cowpled hor houndeȝ.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 57 Cahchare, or dryvare, minator, abactor.

a. A person who captures or (in early use) takes possession of someone or something; esp. one who catches or traps animals, often as an occupation. Also occasionally: a device for capturing animals; a trap.coney-catcher, dog-catcher, man-catcher, money-catcher, rat-catcher, thief-catcher, etc.: see the first element.

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the mind > possession > taking > seizing > [noun] > quickly or hurriedly > one who

catcherc1450

cratcher?1518

snatcher1575

intercepter1598

interceptor1598

snappera1616

interloper1670

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > [noun] > one who entraps

beswiker1340

catcherc1450

fodea1529

misleader1579

Sinon1581

entrapper1587

siren1592

snarer1597

flycatcher1600

ensnarer1631

decoy1639

decoy-ducka1640

trepan1653

trepanner1659

the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowler > [noun]

fowlerc893

birder1308

catcher1550

bird-catcher1580

bird-angler1653

wild-fowler1859

waterfowler1888

c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 144 Manye ther ben now of accrocheres and kaccheres [Fr. hapeurs] a boute the kyng.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Love in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 1 This book..is..so drawe togider to maken the catchers [1561 calthers] therof ben the more redy to hente sentence.

1541 T. Paynell tr. Felicius Conspiracie of Catiline iii. f. 4 A waster of his owne goodes, and a catcher of other mennes.

1550 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue (new ed.) i. ix. sig. Bii^v The rough net is not the best catcher of burdes.

1553 J. Bale Vocacyon f. 3^v I fare lyke the byrde which is deliuered from the snare of the catcher.

1635 J. Bentham Christian Confl. xiv. 344 Vsurers..are grievous oppressours, catchers and consumers of mens substance.

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. ii. 142 Scallops will move so strongly, as oftentimes to leap out of the Catcher wherein they are taken.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Muræna Its slipperyness makes it roll about, and escape the catcher.

1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 137 Though some [birds] are still alive, when they fall into their hands, the catchers kill them immediately.

1839 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 339 It was..an uncomfortable ‘catch’; the old god being the catchee, instead of the catcher.

1874 Manch. Guardian 29 Apr. 6/1 British officials and police in Government employ being used as catchers of runaway slaves.

1895 Bee Keepers' Rev. July 196/1 Taking out the movable end of the catcher [I] gently put the swarm, bush and all, into the catcher.

1928 Everybody's Oct. 50/2 Catchers of wild horses had moved out of this basin lately. Rabies had come in.

1990 Connoisseur Dec. 120/3 The Backyard Bug Kit..has a humane insect-catcher, with air holes.

2009 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 30 June 24 A cat being pursued by the council's catcher disappears over a fence.

(a) A ship or other vessel used in catching fish or hunting whales. Frequently (and in earliest use) with preceding modifying word indicating the type of catch.Recorded earliest in mackerel-catcher n. at mackerel n.¹ Compounds 1.Cf. pogy-catcher n. at pogy n. Compounds 2.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun]

fisher-boatc1440

fish-craft1480

fisherman1604

fisher-ship1614

fish-ship1676

fishing-boat1732

fishing-ship1785

fish-boat1792

catcher1829

fishera1862

fishing-craft1875

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > whaling vessel

Greenlandman1659

whale-boat1682

whalefisherman1724

whaleman1767

whaler1806

spouter1815

whale-ship1820

catcher1829

sperm-whaler1834

blubber-boiler1851

plum-puddinger1851

five-boater1887

bay whaler1905

1829 Bangor (Maine) Reg. 17 Nov. 19 schrs. went ashore..—among them the Bee, Cyreno and Climax, of Hingham..—mackerel catchers.

1879 G. B. Goode Hist. Menhaden in Rep. Commissioner 1877 (U.S. Comm. Fish & Fisheries) V. App. A. 152 A peculiar method of preserving the unsalted menhaden is made use of on board of the Connecticut halibut-catchers.

1884 N.Y. Times 19 Jan. 5/1 Before Jan. 21 the whole fleet of New-England catchers will have sailed for home.

1913 Motor Boating Aug. 60/2 Nowadays the catchers are invariably auxiliaries, mostly schooners of 100 or more tons register and some sloops of much less tonnage.

1925 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 208/1 These catchers are most efficient little vessels, fast, handy,..and of necessity kept in first-class order, for a chipped propeller..would give the alarm as they steal on their quarry.

1959 Irish Times 5 Jan. 5/8 A pelagic whaling fleet to-day consists of a factory-ship, a couple of towing ships.., a couple of buoy boats, and 10 or 11 catchers.

1995 World Fishing Aug. 3/3 Owners..have recently been buying tuna-catchers of up to 1200 tonne capacity to supply the country's..canneries.

(b) A small, fast, heavily armed warship used for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats. Short for torpedo-catcher n. (b) at torpedo n. Compounds 2. Now historical and rare.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > anti-torpedo vessel

torpedo-catcher1877

catcher1885

torpedo-boat destroyer1893

torpedo destroyer1896

T.B.D.1897

1885 Jrnl. Royal United Service Inst. Jan. 493 The Channel and Mediterranean squadrons should have attached to them their proper proportion of torpedo-boats, catchers, and light, swift, observation vessels.

1895 F. T. Jane Blake of ‘Rattlesnake’ viii. 146 We were steaming along one day off Dantzig.., when we met a British catcher hotly pursued by Russian cruisers.

1902 Daily Chron. 18 Apr. 3/3 He takes us through the various stages of the catchers, the destroyers, and the scouts, and he explains the minutiæ of submarine warfare.

2009 L. Block Aboard Farragut Class Destroyers in World War II i. 7 The catcher was not fast enough to be a reliable deterrent and the British then built larger vessels capable of attaining 27 knots.

c. In a rolling mill: a person who takes hold of the metal with tongs as it comes out of the rollers. Now rare.Frequently paired with roller (cf. roller n.¹ 21c).

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > workers performing other tasks or processes

river?c1475

melter1511

sinker1526

folder up1552

wiper1552

scourer1574

heaver1587

stoverc1600

rasper1611

ripper1611

roller1616

smearer1632

waterleadera1650

scooper1668

smiter1670

puncher1681

staker1688

crusher1794

hardener1796

reamer1822

piledriver1826

catcher1832

waterproofer1837

middler1847

culler1850

hanger-on1858

pitcher1865

bumper1871

fine liner1871

bricksetter1883

waxer1890

bottle-oh1898

edger1909

bottle-o-er1915

caster1921

recycler1970

linesperson1973

1832 H. Martineau Hill & Valley iv. 61 The roller and his catcher who stand on each side of the rolling machine, and put the bar into a smaller roll every time it is handed from one to the other.

1861 S. Smiles Workmen's Earnings 27 Rate of wages..Rollers £5 10s. 0d... Catchers to ditto £1 10s. 0d.

1904 J. W. Hall in F. W. Harbord Metall. of Steel xvii. 312 The catcher,..as soon as he sees the end of the bar appear through the first pass between the bottom and middle roll, he seizes it with his tongs.

1946 Iron & Steel Engineer Oct. 93/2 Flatness requires coordination of effort between the roller and his catcher.

a. A person who intercepts and holds something which has been thrown, dropped, etc.; (Sport) a person who makes a catch (cf. catch n.² 4b(b)).

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > fielder > types of fielder

catcher1774

butterfingers1835

catch1853

1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 61^v Holdyng the lappe of his goune abrode, as though he would catche something, and to wardes thesame lappe or spred goun doth falle..a churche. [Margin] A catcher.

1772 R. Warner tr. Plautus Parasite ii. iii, in B. Thornton et al. tr. Plautus Comedies IV. 144 The slaves..who play in th' streets, The throwers and the catchers of the ball.

1774 Laws of Cricket (Ridley) 11 The Striker is out..if the Ball..is held before it touches the Ground, though it be hugged to the Body of the Catcher.

1861 Bell's Life in London 8 Dec. 6/2 The rules of football..are..various... At Westminster, the ball may be caught under any circumstances, but the catcher takes his chance of a kick.

1894 Our Paper 29 Sept. 622/3 A ball dropped from a height of 500 feet..would break the catcher's hands.

1942 Chicago Defender 12 Sept. 20/3 Florence Lake, cousin of the bride, was the lucky catcher of the bridal bouquet.

1958 Times 29 Apr. 5/2 Not even a surgeon can blunt his amazing agility as a catcher of a cricket ball.

2003 Irish Times 15 Dec. (Sports Suppl.) 7/3 In lineout work the catchers..get the kudos, but the work of the thrower and the lifters is just as important.

b. In baseball and softball: a player positioned behind home plate to catch pitches not hit away by the batter and execute other defensive plays.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball player > [noun] > catcher

catcher1855

receiver1888

receiving end1888

backstop1889

1855 Spirit of Times 12 May 147/2 Base Ball—Rules For Playing. 1. Catcher. 2. Home and Striker's Stand. 3. Pitcher.

1862 N.Y. Sunday Mercury 13 July 6/2 Brainard and Young getting their runs by stealing in on the pitcher and catcher.

1886 F. H. Burnett Little Ld. Fauntleroy 122 He showed all the attitudes of pitcher and catcher and batter.., and gave a dramatic description of a wonderful ‘hot ball’ he had seen caught.

1916 L. Chadwick Baseball Joe on Giants 167 The third [man] succumbed to a high foul that Mylert, the catcher, gathered in close to the right of first base.

1946 Washington Post 26 Aug. 3/3 Weyhenmeyer scores a run in the soft ball game. Catcher Pat Davis..tagged Weyhenmeyer, but Corpl. Edward Devan..called him safe.

2006 G. Illes True Evil xvi. 193 The catcher caught the ball cleanly, jumped to his feet, and fired the ball across the pitcher's mound.

c. U.S. slang (originally Prison slang). The receptive partner in homosexual anal intercourse. Also: a (typically young or vulnerable) prison inmate who has a submissive role in a homosexual relationship between men. Usually contrasted with pitcher. Cf. catch v. 50b, pitch v.² 15b.

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1967 M. Braly On Yard xi. 149 You know I don't play that stuff. I've been known to pitch, but I'm no catcher.

1986 J. P. Farrell Voices behind Wall 32 I ain't one of them muthafuckin' faggots. Sure, I have sex with men, but I'm the pitcher not the catcher.

2001 S. Donaldson in D. Sabo et al. Prison Masculinities iv. 120 These relationships..involve an obligation on the part of the Daddy to defend his partner..and on the part of the catcher to obey his Man.

2018 @macklemom_ 24 May in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) My manager..interrupted a conversation i was having..about a guy i was dating at the time with ‘so..are you the catcher? or the pitcher?’

†4. A person who sings catches (catch n.² 3). Obsolete. rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > singer of other types of music > [noun] > others

mourner1631

catcher1652

monodist1751

pennill singer1784

folk-singer1898

moaner1927

bluesman1930

calypsonian1934

torch singer1934

lieder-singer1936

torcher1940

country singer1953

protest singer1966

ragga1997

1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew iv. i. sig. K3^v Where be my Catchers? Come, a Round.

1652 J. Hilton Catch that catch Can sig. A3 As for the Rounds, they have, and may shift for themselves; so might the Catches too in these Times, when Catches and Catchers were never so much in request.

Compounds

catcher's mitt n. Baseball a specially padded protective glove worn by the catcher on his or her non-throwing hand, having a single pocket for all four fingers.

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1890 Spalding's Base Ball Guide for 1890 (end matter) (advt.) Spalding's Special League Catcher's Mitt, finest quality drab buckskin, with patent fingerless throwing glove.

1924 C. D. Wardlaw Fundamentals of Baseball iii. 31 With a catcher's mitt the style of receiving the ball differs. These mitts are so shaped that they have a deep hole into which the ball should sink. The flat of the mitt is turned toward the ball; the right hand is merely a covering agent.

1952 I. S. Young Hit & Miss xix. 238 The umpire..grinned as he watched the ball come into the catcher's mitt.

2007 M. Irvin & P. Pepe Few & Chosen iv. 58 He had such quick wrists he could hit a ball practically out of the catcher's mitt and drive it over the fence.

catcher warp n. (in woven chenille fabric) the strong fine warp thread that retains the tufted weft thread in position.

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1842 Repertory Patent Inventions 17 299 A shade of the catcher-warp only is made to receive the fur-stripe or weft.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 390/2 The catcher-warps..put in to hold down the chenille by its ‘back-bone’.

1930 Monthly Labor Rev. Mar. 32 We then have regular rows of chenille fur woven upon a heavy wool back or cushion and firmly bound into position by a catcher warp.

1979 in S. C. Reznikoff Specif. Commerc. Interiors 281/2 Chenille, a pile fabric woven by the insertion of a prepared weft row of surface yarn tufts in a ‘fur’ or ‘caterpillar’ form through very fine but strong cotton ‘catcher’ warp yarns.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	catcher
释义	catchern. Brit. /ˈkatʃə/, U.S. /ˈkɛtʃər/, /ˈkætʃər/ Forms: see catch v. and -er suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: catch v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < catch v. + -er suffix¹. Compare Old French, Middle French (northern) cacheor kind of horse used for chasing or hunting (mid 13th cent.), variant of chaceor chaser n.¹ (compare sense 1b at that entry).Attested earlier in surnames, although it is unclear whether these should be interpreted as showing the Middle English word or perhaps an otherwise unattested Anglo-Norman formation: Ricardus Kaccher (1200), Jordan Cachere (1221), Will. le Cachor (1275), Thom. Cachour , Ric. Cachiere (both 1327). Compare also Stephanus le Chacur (1204: see chaser n.¹). †1. A person who chases or hunts animals; a hunter. Also: a driver of animals. Cf. catch v. 37. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > herding of cattle > cowherd cowherda1000 oxherd1281 geldherd1284 nowtherd1296 neatherd1301 drover1384 catcherc1400 caller?a1500 ox-boy1580 neatress1586 harrier1591 cowherdess1611 spurn-cow1614 neatherdess1648 cowgirl1753 herds-woman1818 oxman1820 ranchero1825 topsman1825 vaquero1826 herdsmaiden1829 overlander1841 cattle-herd1845 cowboy1849 buckaroo1852 stock-rider1862 pointer1869 night-herder1870 puncher1870 bull-puncher1872 outrider1872 cowpuncher1873 range man1875 cow-puncher1878 herd-boy1878 cow-girl1884 trail-herd1885 trail boss1890 nighthawk1903 point man1903 swing man1903 top hand1912 charro1926 waddy1927 cattle-puncher1928 cowpoke1928 paniolo1947 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1139 Þenne þise cacheres þat couþe, cowpled hor houndeȝ. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 57 Cahchare, or dryvare, minator, abactor. 2. a. A person who captures or (in early use) takes possession of someone or something; esp. one who catches or traps animals, often as an occupation. Also occasionally: a device for capturing animals; a trap.coney-catcher, dog-catcher, man-catcher, money-catcher, rat-catcher, thief-catcher, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > seizing > [noun] > quickly or hurriedly > one who catcherc1450 cratcher?1518 snatcher1575 intercepter1598 interceptor1598 snappera1616 interloper1670 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > snare, trap, entanglement > [noun] > one who entraps beswiker1340 catcherc1450 fodea1529 misleader1579 Sinon1581 entrapper1587 siren1592 snarer1597 flycatcher1600 ensnarer1631 decoy1639 decoy-ducka1640 trepan1653 trepanner1659 the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowler > [noun] fowlerc893 birder1308 catcher1550 bird-catcher1580 bird-angler1653 wild-fowler1859 waterfowler1888 c1450 tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Lyfe Manhode (Cambr.) (1869) 144 Manye ther ben now of accrocheres and kaccheres [Fr. hapeurs] a boute the kyng. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Love in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 1 This book..is..so drawe togider to maken the catchers [1561 calthers] therof ben the more redy to hente sentence. 1541 T. Paynell tr. Felicius Conspiracie of Catiline iii. f. 4 A waster of his owne goodes, and a catcher of other mennes. 1550 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue (new ed.) i. ix. sig. Bii^v The rough net is not the best catcher of burdes. 1553 J. Bale Vocacyon f. 3^v I fare lyke the byrde which is deliuered from the snare of the catcher. 1635 J. Bentham Christian Confl. xiv. 344 Vsurers..are grievous oppressours, catchers and consumers of mens substance. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. ii. 142 Scallops will move so strongly, as oftentimes to leap out of the Catcher wherein they are taken. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Muræna Its slipperyness makes it roll about, and escape the catcher. 1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 137 Though some [birds] are still alive, when they fall into their hands, the catchers kill them immediately. 1839 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 339 It was..an uncomfortable ‘catch’; the old god being the catchee, instead of the catcher. 1874 Manch. Guardian 29 Apr. 6/1 British officials and police in Government employ being used as catchers of runaway slaves. 1895 Bee Keepers' Rev. July 196/1 Taking out the movable end of the catcher [I] gently put the swarm, bush and all, into the catcher. 1928 Everybody's Oct. 50/2 Catchers of wild horses had moved out of this basin lately. Rabies had come in. 1990 Connoisseur Dec. 120/3 The Backyard Bug Kit..has a humane insect-catcher, with air holes. 2009 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 30 June 24 A cat being pursued by the council's catcher disappears over a fence. b. (a) A ship or other vessel used in catching fish or hunting whales. Frequently (and in earliest use) with preceding modifying word indicating the type of catch.Recorded earliest in mackerel-catcher n. at mackerel n.¹ Compounds 1.Cf. pogy-catcher n. at pogy n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] fisher-boatc1440 fish-craft1480 fisherman1604 fisher-ship1614 fish-ship1676 fishing-boat1732 fishing-ship1785 fish-boat1792 catcher1829 fishera1862 fishing-craft1875 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > whaling vessel Greenlandman1659 whale-boat1682 whalefisherman1724 whaleman1767 whaler1806 spouter1815 whale-ship1820 catcher1829 sperm-whaler1834 blubber-boiler1851 plum-puddinger1851 five-boater1887 bay whaler1905 1829 Bangor (Maine) Reg. 17 Nov. 19 schrs. went ashore..—among them the Bee, Cyreno and Climax, of Hingham..—mackerel catchers. 1879 G. B. Goode Hist. Menhaden in Rep. Commissioner 1877 (U.S. Comm. Fish & Fisheries) V. App. A. 152 A peculiar method of preserving the unsalted menhaden is made use of on board of the Connecticut halibut-catchers. 1884 N.Y. Times 19 Jan. 5/1 Before Jan. 21 the whole fleet of New-England catchers will have sailed for home. 1913 Motor Boating Aug. 60/2 Nowadays the catchers are invariably auxiliaries, mostly schooners of 100 or more tons register and some sloops of much less tonnage. 1925 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 208/1 These catchers are most efficient little vessels, fast, handy,..and of necessity kept in first-class order, for a chipped propeller..would give the alarm as they steal on their quarry. 1959 Irish Times 5 Jan. 5/8 A pelagic whaling fleet to-day consists of a factory-ship, a couple of towing ships.., a couple of buoy boats, and 10 or 11 catchers. 1995 World Fishing Aug. 3/3 Owners..have recently been buying tuna-catchers of up to 1200 tonne capacity to supply the country's..canneries. (b) A small, fast, heavily armed warship used for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats. Short for torpedo-catcher n. (b) at torpedo n. Compounds 2. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > anti-torpedo vessel torpedo-catcher1877 catcher1885 torpedo-boat destroyer1893 torpedo destroyer1896 T.B.D.1897 1885 Jrnl. Royal United Service Inst. Jan. 493 The Channel and Mediterranean squadrons should have attached to them their proper proportion of torpedo-boats, catchers, and light, swift, observation vessels. 1895 F. T. Jane Blake of ‘Rattlesnake’ viii. 146 We were steaming along one day off Dantzig.., when we met a British catcher hotly pursued by Russian cruisers. 1902 Daily Chron. 18 Apr. 3/3 He takes us through the various stages of the catchers, the destroyers, and the scouts, and he explains the minutiæ of submarine warfare. 2009 L. Block Aboard Farragut Class Destroyers in World War II i. 7 The catcher was not fast enough to be a reliable deterrent and the British then built larger vessels capable of attaining 27 knots. c. In a rolling mill: a person who takes hold of the metal with tongs as it comes out of the rollers. Now rare.Frequently paired with roller (cf. roller n.¹ 21c). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > workers performing other tasks or processes river?c1475 melter1511 sinker1526 folder up1552 wiper1552 scourer1574 heaver1587 stoverc1600 rasper1611 ripper1611 roller1616 smearer1632 waterleadera1650 scooper1668 smiter1670 puncher1681 staker1688 crusher1794 hardener1796 reamer1822 piledriver1826 catcher1832 waterproofer1837 middler1847 culler1850 hanger-on1858 pitcher1865 bumper1871 fine liner1871 bricksetter1883 waxer1890 bottle-oh1898 edger1909 bottle-o-er1915 caster1921 recycler1970 linesperson1973 1832 H. Martineau Hill & Valley iv. 61 The roller and his catcher who stand on each side of the rolling machine, and put the bar into a smaller roll every time it is handed from one to the other. 1861 S. Smiles Workmen's Earnings 27 Rate of wages..Rollers £5 10s. 0d... Catchers to ditto £1 10s. 0d. 1904 J. W. Hall in F. W. Harbord Metall. of Steel xvii. 312 The catcher,..as soon as he sees the end of the bar appear through the first pass between the bottom and middle roll, he seizes it with his tongs. 1946 Iron & Steel Engineer Oct. 93/2 Flatness requires coordination of effort between the roller and his catcher. 3. a. A person who intercepts and holds something which has been thrown, dropped, etc.; (Sport) a person who makes a catch (cf. catch n.² 4b(b)). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > fielder > types of fielder catcher1774 butterfingers1835 catch1853 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 61^v Holdyng the lappe of his goune abrode, as though he would catche something, and to wardes thesame lappe or spred goun doth falle..a churche. [Margin] A catcher. 1772 R. Warner tr. Plautus Parasite ii. iii, in B. Thornton et al. tr. Plautus Comedies IV. 144 The slaves..who play in th' streets, The throwers and the catchers of the ball. 1774 Laws of Cricket (Ridley) 11 The Striker is out..if the Ball..is held before it touches the Ground, though it be hugged to the Body of the Catcher. 1861 Bell's Life in London 8 Dec. 6/2 The rules of football..are..various... At Westminster, the ball may be caught under any circumstances, but the catcher takes his chance of a kick. 1894 Our Paper 29 Sept. 622/3 A ball dropped from a height of 500 feet..would break the catcher's hands. 1942 Chicago Defender 12 Sept. 20/3 Florence Lake, cousin of the bride, was the lucky catcher of the bridal bouquet. 1958 Times 29 Apr. 5/2 Not even a surgeon can blunt his amazing agility as a catcher of a cricket ball. 2003 Irish Times 15 Dec. (Sports Suppl.) 7/3 In lineout work the catchers..get the kudos, but the work of the thrower and the lifters is just as important. b. In baseball and softball: a player positioned behind home plate to catch pitches not hit away by the batter and execute other defensive plays. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball player > [noun] > catcher catcher1855 receiver1888 receiving end1888 backstop1889 1855 Spirit of Times 12 May 147/2 Base Ball—Rules For Playing. 1. Catcher. 2. Home and Striker's Stand. 3. Pitcher. 1862 N.Y. Sunday Mercury 13 July 6/2 Brainard and Young getting their runs by stealing in on the pitcher and catcher. 1886 F. H. Burnett Little Ld. Fauntleroy 122 He showed all the attitudes of pitcher and catcher and batter.., and gave a dramatic description of a wonderful ‘hot ball’ he had seen caught. 1916 L. Chadwick Baseball Joe on Giants 167 The third [man] succumbed to a high foul that Mylert, the catcher, gathered in close to the right of first base. 1946 Washington Post 26 Aug. 3/3 Weyhenmeyer scores a run in the soft ball game. Catcher Pat Davis..tagged Weyhenmeyer, but Corpl. Edward Devan..called him safe. 2006 G. Illes True Evil xvi. 193 The catcher caught the ball cleanly, jumped to his feet, and fired the ball across the pitcher's mound. c. U.S. slang (originally Prison slang). The receptive partner in homosexual anal intercourse. Also: a (typically young or vulnerable) prison inmate who has a submissive role in a homosexual relationship between men. Usually contrasted with pitcher. Cf. catch v. 50b, pitch v.² 15b. ΚΠ 1967 M. Braly On Yard xi. 149 You know I don't play that stuff. I've been known to pitch, but I'm no catcher. 1986 J. P. Farrell Voices behind Wall 32 I ain't one of them muthafuckin' faggots. Sure, I have sex with men, but I'm the pitcher not the catcher. 2001 S. Donaldson in D. Sabo et al. Prison Masculinities iv. 120 These relationships..involve an obligation on the part of the Daddy to defend his partner..and on the part of the catcher to obey his Man. 2018 @macklemom_ 24 May in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) My manager..interrupted a conversation i was having..about a guy i was dating at the time with ‘so..are you the catcher? or the pitcher?’ †4. A person who sings catches (catch n.² 3). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > singer of other types of music > [noun] > others mourner1631 catcher1652 monodist1751 pennill singer1784 folk-singer1898 moaner1927 bluesman1930 calypsonian1934 torch singer1934 lieder-singer1936 torcher1940 country singer1953 protest singer1966 ragga1997 1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew iv. i. sig. K3^v Where be my Catchers? Come, a Round. 1652 J. Hilton Catch that catch Can sig. A3 As for the Rounds, they have, and may shift for themselves; so might the Catches too in these Times, when Catches and Catchers were never so much in request. Compounds catcher's mitt n. Baseball a specially padded protective glove worn by the catcher on his or her non-throwing hand, having a single pocket for all four fingers. ΚΠ 1890 Spalding's Base Ball Guide for 1890 (end matter) (advt.) Spalding's Special League Catcher's Mitt, finest quality drab buckskin, with patent fingerless throwing glove. 1924 C. D. Wardlaw Fundamentals of Baseball iii. 31 With a catcher's mitt the style of receiving the ball differs. These mitts are so shaped that they have a deep hole into which the ball should sink. The flat of the mitt is turned toward the ball; the right hand is merely a covering agent. 1952 I. S. Young Hit & Miss xix. 238 The umpire..grinned as he watched the ball come into the catcher's mitt. 2007 M. Irvin & P. Pepe Few & Chosen iv. 58 He had such quick wrists he could hit a ball practically out of the catcher's mitt and drive it over the fence. catcher warp n. (in woven chenille fabric) the strong fine warp thread that retains the tufted weft thread in position. ΚΠ 1842 Repertory Patent Inventions 17 299 A shade of the catcher-warp only is made to receive the fur-stripe or weft. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 390/2 The catcher-warps..put in to hold down the chenille by its ‘back-bone’. 1930 Monthly Labor Rev. Mar. 32 We then have regular rows of chenille fur woven upon a heavy wool back or cushion and firmly bound into position by a catcher warp. 1979 in S. C. Reznikoff Specif. Commerc. Interiors 281/2 Chenille, a pile fabric woven by the insertion of a prepared weft row of surface yarn tufts in a ‘fur’ or ‘caterpillar’ form through very fine but strong cotton ‘catcher’ warp yarns. 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