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One with claws caught her slip, perhaps
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catcher
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws; "a catcher needs a lot of protective equipment"; "he plays behind ...
Wikipedia
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Catcher is also a general term for a fielder who catches the ball in cricket . Catcher is a position for a baseball or softball player. When a batter takes his/her turn to hit, the catcher crouches behind home plate , in front of the ( home ) umpire , and ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Someone or something that catches. 2 (context baseball English) The player that squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher 3 (context chiefly US colloquial English) The bottom partner in a homosexual relationship or sexual encounter ...
Usage examples of catcher.
He looked like a veteran athlete, a catcher or a hockey defenseman, recently retired.
Kevin Millwood was on the mound for the Braves, peering in to the catcher for the sign, looking to jam up the Mets leadoff hitter, Jose Reyes.
He was a fairly good outfielder, but excelled either as a catcher or baseman.
Two days later he was already playing, standing in the street, a catcher in stoopball, taking a lean on a parked car to let the bus go by.
The Taiwanese catcher dropped over backward onto his hands and scuttled away crabwise.
But the positions which he is specially bound to back up are the second and third bases, not only on all throws from the catcher, but from any other fielder, where it is possible for him to get in line with the throw.
He cannot wait until the catcher throws or he will be too late to get in line.
Throws from catchers with a slinging motion tend not to follow a straight line but to tail off toward the first-base side of second base.
On the top of the hills, small forests of windmills spun in the offshore breeze and on the roofs of many houses, sun catchers glinted in the morning light.
The surface of the steel was honeycombed with thousands of tiny force field projectors powered by a complex system of sun catchers and storage units built into the pylons.
Sun catchers bloomed like exotic flowers on the top of the vast machine.
Twice in the first four innings the Oakland catcher has taken outside fastballs and driven doubles to the opposite field.
With all the new movers and shakers pushing their way into her circle of influence, Star Catcher had to be out there as much as possible.
There were fifteen hundred draft-eligible players in North America alone that he would rather own than this misshapen catcher.
The leading scouting publication, Baseball America, has just published its special issue devoted to the 2002 draft, and in it a list of the top twenty-five amateur catchers in the country.