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Definition of Pitcher

1. Noun. (baseball) the person who does the pitching. "Our pitcher has a sore arm"

2. Noun. An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.

3. Noun. The quantity contained in a pitcher.

4. Noun. (botany) a leaf that that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer.

5. Noun. The position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit. "They have a southpaw on the mound"

Definition of Pitcher

1. n. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.

2. n. 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.

Definition of Pitcher

1. Noun. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc. ¹

2. Noun. (baseball softball), the player who delivers the ball to the batter. ¹

3. Noun. (Chiefly American English) (colloquial) The dominant partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men. ¹

4. Noun. (Obsolete) A sort of crowbar for digging. ¹

5. 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. ¹

6. Noun. (botany) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pitcher

1. a container for holding and pouring liquids [n -S]

Medical Definition of Pitcher

1. 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. 2. A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. 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. Origin: OE. Picher, OF. Pichier, OHG. Pehhar, pehhari; prob. Of the same origin as E. Beaker. Cf. Beaker. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pitcher

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