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number seven iron

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pitch⋅er

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.
4. sett (def. 1).

Origin:
1700–10; pitch 1 + -er 1
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Word Origin & History

pitcher 
"earthen jug," c.1290, from O.Fr. pichier (12c.), altered from bichier, from M.L. bicarium, probably from Gk. bikos "earthen vessel" (see beaker). Pitcher-plant is recorded from 1819.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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