Definition of catchers:
(n) :
(baseball) The player who squats behind home plate and receives the pitches from the pitcher.
(n) :
Someone or something that catches.
(n) :
(ice hockey) The webbed glove that the goaltender wears on the hand opposite the hand that holds the stick.
(n) :
(chiefly US, colloquial) The bottom partner in a homosexual relationship or sexual encounter between two men.
(n) :
(archaic) A wrestler.
(n) :
Short for mailcatcher (“device for a moving train to pick up mail”) [(railways, historical) A device on a train for picking up mailbags while the train is in motion.]