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pitcher

1

[ pich-er ]

noun

  1. a container, usually with a handle and spout or lip, for holding and pouring liquids.
  2. Botany.
    1. a pitcherlike modification of the leaf of certain plants.
    2. an ascidium.


pitcher

2

[ pich-er ]

noun

  1. a person who pitches.
  2. Baseball. the player who throws the ball to the opposing batter.
  3. Also called number seven iron. Golf. a club with an iron head the face of which has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitching niblick.

Pitcher

3

[ pich-er ]

noun

  1. Molly Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley, 1754–1832, American Revolutionary heroine.

pitcher

1

/ ˈpɪtʃə /

noun

  1. baseball the player on the fielding team who pitches the ball to the batter
  2. a granite stone or sett used in paving
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


pitcher

2

/ ˈpɪtʃə /

noun

  1. a large jug, usually rounded with a narrow neck and often of earthenware, used mainly for holding water
  2. botany any of the urn-shaped leaves of the pitcher plant
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • pitcher·like adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pitcher1

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English picher, from Old French pichier, from Medieval Latin picārium, variant of bicārium beaker

Origin of pitcher2

First recorded in 1700–10; pitch 1 + -er 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pitcher1

C13: from Old French pichier, from Medieval Latin picārium, variant of bicārium beaker
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Idioms and Phrases

see little pitchers have big ears .
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Example Sentences

For a club to field three or more starting pitchers who it had drafted in a single class is rare.

Remarkably, lefty pitchers make it to the big leagues about three times as frequently as righties, given their share of the general population.

However, seeing two of the best power hitters of their generation tee off on opposing pitchers has to be a welcome sight for a team that had visions of this back when Stanton and Judge were first united.

The most strikeouts any pitcher has managed in that time frame since 2015 was Corey Kluber, who fanned 127 batters in 98 innings over 13 starts in 2017.

Emerging homegrown ace Luis Castillo, one of the top strikeout pitchers in the game, was joined last year by Sonny Gray and Trevor Bauer to form a potential quality rotation.

You meant to chase every glass of wine with a pitcher of H2O, but the holiday cheer somehow steered you off course.

The more I become dissipated, ill, a broken pitcher, the more I too become a creative artist in that great revival of art.

A pitcher's life is one day of deliberate self-injury, followed by three days of healing, then a fresh injury.

I grew up in a house that had butter on the table and a pitcher of sweet tea in the fridge.

Sitting in that plastic pitcher, she said, the water seemed to sparkle.

"Here's a white pitcher, Jess," Violet called, holding up a perfect specimen with a tiny chip in its nose.

"Because I thought a pitcher wouldn't hold lemonade enough," said Willy.

“My last activity shall be for the birds,” she smiled, as she came back with the pitcher.

But there was no food upon the table, nor anything else except a pitcher of water, a bundle of weeds and a handful of pebbles.

There were sweet potatoes, fleecy biscuits, a jug of sorghum, and a pitcher of sweet milk.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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