Definitions

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  • noun a person who captures and holds people or animals

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Examples

  • My capturer was a boy, and as remarkable a specimen of a boy as it has ever been my lot to meet during the whole of my career.

    The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • The story line is fast-paced; mostly driven by the chained hero and his female capturer who takes him although there is a troublemaking villain trying to use the situation for personal gain.

    Bound to Please-Hope Tarr « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008

  • Isaac Julien, a groundbreaking filmmaker and member of the Creative Caribbean Network has proved once more to be the supreme capturer of cultural identities and narrator of seemingly undisclosed histories.

    Constantin Bjerke: Ten Thousand Waves by Isaac Julien Constantin Bjerke 2010

  • Isaac Julien, a groundbreaking filmmaker and member of the Creative Caribbean Network has proved once more to be the supreme capturer of cultural identities and narrator of seemingly undisclosed histories.

    Constantin Bjerke: Ten Thousand Waves by Isaac Julien Constantin Bjerke 2010

  • Isaac Julien, a groundbreaking filmmaker and member of the Creative Caribbean Network has proved once more to be the supreme capturer of cultural identities and narrator of seemingly undisclosed histories.

    Constantin Bjerke: Ten Thousand Waves by Isaac Julien Constantin Bjerke 2010

  • Isaac Julien, a groundbreaking filmmaker and member of the Creative Caribbean Network has proved once more to be the supreme capturer of cultural identities and narrator of seemingly undisclosed histories.

    Constantin Bjerke: Ten Thousand Waves by Isaac Julien Constantin Bjerke 2010

  • Isaac Julien, a groundbreaking filmmaker and member of the Creative Caribbean Network has proved once more to be the supreme capturer of cultural identities and narrator of seemingly undisclosed histories.

    Constantin Bjerke: Ten Thousand Waves by Isaac Julien Constantin Bjerke 2010

  • Isaac Julien, a groundbreaking filmmaker and member of the Creative Caribbean Network has proved once more to be the supreme capturer of cultural identities and narrator of seemingly undisclosed histories.

    Constantin Bjerke: Ten Thousand Waves by Isaac Julien Constantin Bjerke 2010

  • Isaac Julien, a groundbreaking filmmaker and member of the Creative Caribbean Network has proved once more to be the supreme capturer of cultural identities and narrator of seemingly undisclosed histories.

    Constantin Bjerke: Ten Thousand Waves by Isaac Julien Constantin Bjerke 2010

  • Mlilo says Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) processing officers at Beitbridge issued registration books in the name of River Ranch but when the applications were sent to the Central Vehicle Registry, the data capturer, Mercy Kuliwa, a student on attachment “unnecessarily restricted herself” to what was on the “incorrectly completed” application form and put the UNDP as the registered owner.

    Government confirms River Ranch vehicles were registered in the name of UNDP 2009

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