boot catcher

noun

A person employed at an inn to take off people's boots and clean them.

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Meanings

nounboot catcher (plural boot catchers)

plural boot catchers · alternative bootcatcher · alternative boot-catcher

  1. historicalA person employed at an inn to take off people's boots and clean them.

    Where's the Boot-catcher gone? I cannot get any thing to eat here, nor my boots, to go any where elſe.

    1767, David Garrick, A Peep Behind the Curtain
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APA

boot catcher. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boot%20catcher

MLA

“boot catcher.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boot%20catcher. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boot catcher,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boot%20catcher.

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