[pich-er] 
| 1. | a container, usually with a handle and spout or lip, for holding and pouring liquids. |
| 2. | Botany.
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[pich-er] | 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. |
| 4. | sett (def. 1). |
[pich-er] Molly (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley ), 1754–1832, American Revolutionary heroine. |
[set] | 1. | Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone. |
| 2. | Also called stake. a hand-held tool that is struck by a hammer to shape or deform a metal object. |
| 3. | Also, set. the distinctively colored pattern of crisscrossed lines and stripes against a background in which a Scottish tartan is woven. |
| pitch·er 1 (pĭch'ər) n.
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| pitch·er 2 (pĭch'ər) n.
[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.] |
| Pitch·er (pĭch'ər) See Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley. |
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).