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.

References

• “boot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.