catcher

noun6

1. •
   Someone or something that catches.
2. •
   The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.

   • Finding Dempsey in my mind's eye in January was not quite startling, ...but some other catchers turned up in my hot-stove reveries as well. Bob Boone, for instance. — 1989
3. •
   The webbed glove that the goaltender wears on the hand opposite the hand that holds the stick.
4. •
   Short for mailcatcher (“device for a moving train to pick up mail”)
5. •
   (informal, slang) The bottom partner in a homosexual relationship or sexual encounter between two men.
6. •
   (no longer used) A wrestler.