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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One that pitches.
  2. n. Baseball The player who throws the ball from the mound to the batter.
  3. n. Sports A seven iron used in golf.
  4. n. A container for liquids, usually having a handle and a lip or spout for pouring.
  5. n. Botany A pitcherlike part, such as the leaf of a pitcher plant.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who pitches, In ball-games, the player who serves the ball to the batsman. See base-ball
  2. n. In coal-mining, one who attends to loading at the shaft or other place of loading.
  3. n. A vessel with an open spout and generally with a handle, used for holding water, milk, or other liquid.
  4. n. 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.

Wiktionary

  1. n. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.
  2. n. , the player who delivers the ball to the batter.
  3. n. The dominant partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
  4. n. A sort of crowbar for digging.
  5. 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.
  6. n. A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See w:pitcher plant.

GNU Webster's 1913

  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 sort of crowbar for digging.
  3. 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.
  4. n. A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (baseball) the person who does the pitching
  2. n. the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit
  3. n. (botany) a leaf that that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer
  4. n. an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring
  5. n. the quantity contained in a pitcher

Etymologies

  1. Middle English picher, from Old French pichier, alteration of bichier, from Medieval Latin bicārium, drinking cup, probably from Greek bikos, jar, possibly from Egyptian biḳ, oil vessel.

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