One who catches or has caught or captured something or someone.
One who is holding a captive or captives.
To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.
Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.
In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.