boot catcher

English

Alternative forms

  • boot-catcher

Noun

boot catcher (plural boot catchers)

  1. (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.

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