catcher

catcher
/kach"euhr/, n.
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.
[1300-50; ME; see CATCH, -ER1]

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