Definitions for catchers

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catchers catch·er

Spelling: [kach-er]

IPA: /ˈkætʃ ər/

Catchers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 381 anagrams from letters in catchers (accehrst).

Definitions for catchers

noun

1. a person or thing that catches.
2. Baseball. the player stationed behind home plate, whose chief duty is to catch pitches not hit by the batter.
3. a member of an aerialist team, as in a circus, who hangs head down from a trapeze and catches another member who has completed a jump or somersault through the air.
4. Metalworking. a person who feeds metal rods through a looping mill.
5. Electronics. catcher resonator. See under Klystron.

Origin of catchers

Middle English word dating back to 1300-50; See origin at catch, -er¹

Examples for catchers

"Well, he'll have a catcher that can hold him this year," declared the city lad.

For me, reading Middlemarch or Sentimental Education is work, whereas catcher in the Rye was pure pleasure.

Confusion over the catcher's eye black is just the tip of the iceberg for this befuddled limey.

Smithers was between him and the plate, and he could not see the catcher.

But then, in 1951, A catcher in the Rye was published, and Salinger became a celebrity.

Now their third man struck out and the catcher's mask was off.

The tiger is the catcher, and the deer is the one that is caught.

Elevating his voice, Addison then called out, "catcher, do your duty!"

"The creator of Holden Caulfield in The catcher in the Rye would not be pleased," USA Today.

As far as seeing the target, the catcher put tape on his fingers so I could see the signals.