(baseball) able to bat either right-handed or left-handed

Usage examples of switcher.

Coming to his feet, Steve found himself behind the panting switcher, which had braked to a sharp stop and was about to unhook from the flat-car.

Then the switcher was steaming out again to the right of way and the tent, its props knocked loose, was collapsing like a wrecked blimp.

They had chosen the switcher for their getaway, but why they had burdened themselves with the whale car was a mystery, unless it had happened by coupling the thing accidentally.

The trailing shriek came as the switcher rattled over a high trestle and hit the curve beyond.

From the panting switcher came a singular laugh that reached the ears of the two men who were reclaiming the rare metal discovered by Absalom Pettigrew.

Mario, the vision switcher, and Bill, head camera operator, to begin with camera one.

And now the most important people in the yards were two small Specialists known as Mountain Switcher and Ocean Switcher.

Mountain Switcher is less important, and you rarely hear his name mentioned in the Song of Earth.

Ocean Switcher was a small, brown-faced man of about forty years, who lived with his tiny wife and seven children of varying ages in a tree-house on the fringes of the delta.

Although he exercised this duty only once a year, the position was considered so important that his name was officially changed, and Da Para became Ocean Switcher all year round.

Here stood Ocean Switcher and Mountain Switcher, each with a team of assistants, each team holding its heavy switching rail.

Whatever the truth of the matter, the Ocean Switcher of that time made a decision and pegged the switching rail to favor the easterly car.

Ocean Switcher, who had stuck to his post until the last, was flung several meters away.

Ocean Switcher, bruised and disgraced, resigned his post, and Da Para took his place and his name.

Further down the track, Ocean Switcher, anticipating the result, gave the order to his men.