boot catcher

English

Alternative forms

• boot-catcher

Noun

boot catcher (plural boot catchers)

1. (historical) A person employed at an inn to take off 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “boot catcher”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)