pitcher

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

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. obsolete 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. (Bot.) 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