The Collaborative International Dictionary
Birdcatcher \Bird"catch`er\, n. One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler.
Wiktionary
n. Someone who catches or ensnares birds, fowler.
Wikipedia
Birdcatcher (1833–1860), or Irish Birdcatcher, was an excellent Thoroughbred racehorse and a leading sire.
Usage examples of "birdcatcher".
The man named Birdcatcher jabbed a spear into its side, but it was clearly a superfluous gesture.
Only the one called Birdcatcher looked at him with open distrust, but they all kept their distance.
Perhaps Birdcatcher thought he meant to take the girl away, back to some death-realm beyond the frozen river.
As they led the woman to a rounded stone near the warmest part of the blaze, Paul saw Birdcatcher staring at him, holding the arm of the little girl who had approached Paul earlier.
He saw fear and concern in most faces, but it was only Birdcatcher in whom it seemed to have an edge that might become violent.
Paul hung on and pushed back with all his power as Birdcatcher leaned forward to dig it in deeper, Paul thought he could feel the tissues of his belly stretching before the stone point.
Runs Far was walking quickly toward them, hands extended as though Birdcatcher's anger was a living thing that might suddenly attack.
For long moments he and Birdcatcher remained locked in silent tension, but Paul knew he could not hold the sharp point away much longer.
The place where Birdcatcher had jabbed him throbbed painfully, and when he put his hand to the spot he felt wetness on his fingers.
Paul stepped in behind them, his reluctance increased when Birdcatcher followed him and rested the spearpoint lightly but eloquently against his back.
Paul could imagine Birdcatcher sitting before the flames, brooding, working up his courage.
He ignored Birdcatcher's angry murmur and kept his hand in place as the child weakly tried to turn his head away.
He could feel Birdcatcher breathing on the back of his neck, could sense the man's tension as though the air in the immediate vicinity threatened a sudden storm.
He raised it up so he could smash Birdcatcher and everything else back into darkness, but instead he himself was struck, a sudden and surprising blow to the back of his head that sent a jolt like an ungrounded electrical wire along his backbone and threw him down into nothing.
Paul stopped, leaning on the spear, and thanked Birdcatcher for having stuck him with it, thereby rendering it taboo with Paul's own blood.