'Pitcher' definitions:

Definition of 'pitcher'

(from WordNet)
noun
(baseball) the person who does the pitching; "our pitcher has a sore arm" [syn: pitcher, hurler, twirler]
noun
An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring [syn: pitcher, ewer]
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The quantity contained in a pitcher [syn: pitcher, pitcherful]
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(botany) a leaf that that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer
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The position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit; "he has played every position except pitcher"; "they have a southpaw on the mound" [syn: pitcher, mound]

Definition of 'Pitcher'

From: GCIDE
  • Pitcher \Pitch"er\, n.
  • 1. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A sort of crowbar for digging. [Obs.] --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Pitcher'

From: GCIDE
  • Pitcher \Pitch"er\, n. [OE. picher, OF. pichier, OHG. pehhar, pehh[=a]ri; prob. of the same origin as E. beaker. Cf. Beaker.]
  • 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Bot.) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. [1913 Webster]
  • American pitcher plants, the species of Sarracenia. See Sarracenia.
  • Australian pitcher plant, 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.
  • California pitcher plant, the Darlingtonia California. See Darlingtonia.
  • Pitcher plant, any plant with the whole or a part of the leaves transformed into pitchers or cuplike organs, especially the species of Nepenthes. See Nepenthes. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'pitcher'

From: Easton
  • Pitcher a vessel for containing liquids. In the East pitchers were usually carried on the head or shoulders (Gen. 24:15-20; Judg. 7:16, 19; Mark 14:13).

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