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Field :: Field (v. t.) To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder..

Redstart :: Redstart (n.) An American fly-catching warbler (Setophaga ruticilla). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches..

Aucupation :: Aucupation (n.) Birdcatching; fowling.

Cog :: Cog (n.) A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel..

Becard :: Becard (n.) A South American bird of the flycatcher family. (Tityra inquisetor).

Birdcatcher :: Birdcatcher (n.) One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler.

Pawl :: Pawl (n.) A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel..

Contagious :: Contagious (a.) Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease..

Cobweb :: Cobweb (n.) A snare of insidious meshes designed to catch the ignorant and unwary.

Ad Captandum :: Ad captandum () A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.

Haul :: Haul (n.) A single draught of a net; as, to catch a hundred fish at a haul..

Save-all :: Save-all (n.) A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it..

Trigger :: Trigger (n.) A piece, as a lever, which is connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it; especially (Firearms), the part of a lock which is moved by the finger to release the cock and discharge the piece..

Caught :: Caught () imp. & p. p. of Catch.

Harpoon :: Harpoon (v. t.) To strike, catch, or kill with a harpoon..

Catchpenny :: Catchpenny (a.) Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show..

Catching :: Catching (a.) Infectious; contagious.

Holdfast :: Holdfast (n.) Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support..

Larker :: Larker (n.) A catcher of larks.

Deprehension :: Deprehension (n.) A catching; discovery.

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