Catcher is a position in baseball and softball. When a batter takes their turn to hit, the catcher crouches behind home plate, in front of the (home) umpire...
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The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by American author J. D. Salinger that was partially published in serial form in 1945–46 before being novelized in 1951...
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The Child Catcher is a fictional character in the 1968 film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and in the later stage musical adaptation. The Child Catcher is employed...
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An international mobile subscriber identity-catcher, or IMSI-catcher, is a telephone eavesdropping device used for intercepting mobile phone traffic and...
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A core catcher is a device provided to catch the molten core material (corium) of a nuclear reactor in case of a nuclear meltdown and prevent it from...
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A rat-catcher is a person who kills or captures rats as a professional form of pest control. Keeping the rat population under control was practiced in...
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Rufous thrush (redirect from Fly-catcher-thrush)
The rufous thrushes, also known as flycatcher-thrushes, are medium-sized insectivorous birds in the genus Stizorhina of the thrush family Turdidae. These...
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Colour Catcher is a brand name of colour run prevention products manufactured by Spotless Group. Colour Catcher is distributed by Spotless Punch in the...
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A brass catcher (also brass trap) is a device designed to capture cartridge casings, often made of brass, as they are ejected from a firearm. Various...
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Flycatcher (redirect from Fly-Catcher)
Look up flycatcher in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Flycatcher may refer to: Old World flycatchers, Muscicapidae Tyrant flycatchers, Tyrannidae Fairy...
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Slugcatcher (redirect from Slug Catcher)
Slug Catcher is the name of a unit in the gas refinery or petroleum industry in which slugs at the outlet of pipelines are collected or caught. A slug...
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Dreamcatcher (disambiguation) (redirect from The dream catcher)
dreamcatcher is a Native American cultural object. Dreamcatcher or Dream Catcher may also refer to: The Dreamcatcher, nom de guerre of Gegard Mousasi, a...
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A man catcher, also known as catchpole, is a type of polearm. It was used in Europe as late as the 18th century.[citation needed] The European design...
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Dreamcatcher (redirect from Dream catcher)
replicate a spider's web, used as a protective charm for infants. Dream catchers were adopted in the Pan-Indian Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and gained...
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A slave catcher is a person employed to track down and return escaped slaves to their enslavers. The first slave catchers in the Americas were active...
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Greg Olson (baseball) (redirect from Greg Olson (Major League Baseball catcher))
professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher from 1989 to 1993 for the Minnesota Twins and the Atlanta Braves. Olson...
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Storm Catcher is a 1999 American action film starring Dolph Lundgren and directed by Tony Hickox, who also co-stars in the film. New Zealand model and...
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Oystercatcher (redirect from Oyster catcher)
The oystercatchers are a group of waders forming the family Haematopodidae, which has a single genus, Haematopus. They are found on coasts worldwide apart...
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The Catcher Was a Spy is a 2018 American war film directed by Ben Lewin and written by Robert Rodat, based on the book of the same name by Nicholas Dawidoff...
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Conflict Catcher is a discontinued utility software application that was written by Jeff Robbin and published by Casady & Greene for classic Mac OS. It...
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A wire catcher (also known as Wire Cutter or Wire Anti-Decapitation Device) is a device used to protect military personnel in open vehicles against taut-wire...
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Holden Caulfield (section In The Catcher in the Rye)
story "Slight Rebellion Off Madison", and "Holden V. Caulfield" in The Catcher in the Rye) is a fictional character in the works of author J. D. Salinger...
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Paper fortune teller (redirect from Cootie Catcher)
as pincers or as a salt cellar. Another common name for it is a cootie catcher; it has many other names. A paper fortune teller may be constructed by...
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The Catcher is a 1998 American slasher film directed by Guy Crawford and Yvette Hoffman. Sick of his baseball-obsessed father Frank's abuse, a boy beats...
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Sleeper Catcher is the fourth studio album by the Little River Band, released in May 1978. It peaked at No. 4 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums...
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Claw machine (redirect from UFO catchers)
cranes, claw cranes, crane games, teddy pickers, and are known as UFO catchers in Japan due to the claws' resemblance to UFOs. The earliest claw machines...
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Catcher's ERA (CERA) in baseball statistics is the earned run average of the pitchers pitching when the catcher in question is catching. Its primary purpose...
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The 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger has had a lasting influence as it remains both a bestseller and a frequently challenged book....
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Creep Catchers is a network of Canadian vigilante groups founded by Canadian felon Dawson Raymond and Ryan Laforge. Dawson Raymond said he felt inspired...
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J. D. Salinger (section The Catcher in the Rye)
January 27, 2010) was an American author best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger published several short stories in Story magazine...
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