Pitcher

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who pitches,
  • noun. In coal-mining, one who attends to loading at the shaft or other place of loading.
  • noun. A vessel with an open spout and generally with a handle, used for holding water, milk, or other liquid.
  • noun. In botany, a specially adapted tubular or cupshaped modification of the leaf of certain plants, particularly of the genera Nepenthes and Sarracenia; an ascidium. See ascidium, pitcherplant, Nepenthes, and Sarracenia.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.
  • noun. A sort of crowbar for digging.
  • noun. A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.
  • noun. A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants.
  • noun. the species of Sarracenia. See Sarracenia.
  • noun. the Cephalotus follicularis, a low saxifragaceous herb having two kinds of radical leaves, some oblanceolate and entire, others transformed into little ovoid pitchers, longitudinally triple-winged and ciliated, the mouth covered with a lid shaped like a cockleshell.
  • noun. the Darlingtonia California. See Darlingtonia.
  • noun. any plant with the whole or a part of the leaves transformed into pitchers or cuplike organs, especially the species of Nepenthes. See Nepenthes.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.
  • noun. , the player who delivers the ball to the batter.
  • noun. (colloquial) The dominant partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
  • noun. A sort of crowbar for digging.
  • noun. A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.
  • noun. A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (baseball) the person who does the pitching
  • noun. the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit
  • noun. (botany) a leaf that that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer
  • noun. an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring
  • noun. the quantity contained in a pitcher
  • Word Usage
    "Only one pitcher is the only pitcher from the Tigers 'season-opening rotation who's still active."
    Hypernym
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    Rhyme
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    picher  richer  switcher  witcher  
    Same Context
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    basin  beaker  bottle  bowl  bucket  
    Synonym
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    ewer  jug  urceolus  urceus