boot catcher

noun

noun

Historical A person employed at an inn to take off people's boots and clean them.

Where's the Boot-catcher gone? I cannot get any thing to eat here, nor my boots, to go any where elſe.1767, David Garrick, A Peep Behind the Curtain:

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