boot catcher
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]boot catcher (plural boot catchers)
- (historical) A person employed at an inn to take off people's boots and clean them.
- 1767, David Garrick, A Peep Behind the Curtain:
- Where's the Boot-catcher gone? I cannot get any thing to eat here, nor my boots, to go any where elſe.
References
[edit]- “boot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.