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pitcher

[pich-er]

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noun

a container, usually with a handle and spout or lip, for holding and pouring liquids.

Botany.

a pitcherlike modification of the leaf of certain plants.

an ascidium.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English picher < Old French pichier < Medieval Latin picārium, variant of bicārium beaker

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pitch·er·like, adjective

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phase in plant life which begins with a spore produced by meiosis

female reproductive organ which produces eggs in bryophytes, ferns and most gymnosperms

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Example Sentences

As a result, the wrong pitcher was in the game at the wrong time.

The parents were concerned about the safety of the park because the sun shines into the eyes of the pitcher.

When a pitcher throws a knuckleball, the ball has no rotation and appears to flutter.

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As a result, the wrong pitcher was in the game at the wrong time.

The parents were concerned about the safety of the park because the sun shines into the eyes of the pitcher.

When a pitcher throws a knuckleball, the ball has no rotation and appears to flutter.

If nothing else, the turquoise pitcher will make an adorable vase.

Her favorites are pitcher plants: those shown here are from her collection.

Put a screen or a piece of cheesecloth over the pitcher to prevent bugs from flying in and drowning.

One evening the family is at supper, and one of the children is sent down cellar to draw a pitcher of beer from the cask.

The refrigerator held the sharp tang of the pitcher of iron-rich well water cooling there.

Set a pitcher of it on your table for instant color.

Alcohols act as antifreeze to keep things from solidifying into a pitcher of lard.

The little bit of the mixture must really be worth pennies as it comes from a big pitcher they make up from a mix.

The lip of one pitcher plant species is slippery only when wet.

Allen is studying the microbial communities in the leaves of the purple pitcher plant.

Lastly the wine was poured from the pitcher into a one- or two-handled drinking cup.

Along the canoe trail, large clumps of knee-high pitcher plants grow thickly on patches of bright green sphagnum moss.

It will intimidate umpires, who will react by squeezing the pitcher to the point where everything is down the middle.

Even the local college pub buys you a pitcher or has free hot wings once in a while.

It can take more than a hundred hours to complete a single teapot or pitcher by hand.

That's good news if you're, say, the best pitcher in your little league division.

The pitcher plant captures water in its vaselike shoots to drown unsuspecting insects, then secretes acids and enzymes that.

He wants to get a mental picture in his mind of what a pitcher has done to him in the.

Water is pumped to the kitchen using a simple,cheap and durable hand pitcher pump.

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noun

a person who pitches.

Baseball. the player who throws the ball to the opposing batter.

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.

sett (def. 1).

Origin:
1700–10; pitch¹ + -er¹

noun

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

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pitcher¹ (ˈpɪtʃə)

—n
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

[C13: from Old French pichier, from Medieval Latin picārium, variant of bicāriumbeaker]

pitcher² (ˈpɪtʃə)

—n
1.	baseball the player on the fielding team who pitches the ball to the batter
2.	a granite stone or sett used in paving

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Word Origin & History

pitcher

"earthen jug," late 13c., 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.

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