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pitch⋅er
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[pich-er] 
–noun
| 1. | a container, usually with a handle and spout or lip, for holding and pouring liquids. |
| 2. | Botany.
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Related forms:
pitch⋅er⋅like, adjective
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). |
Pitch⋅er
[pich-er] –noun
Molly (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley ), 1754–1832, American Revolutionary heroine. |
sett
[set] –noun
| 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. |
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| 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. |
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Pitcher
Pitch"er\, n. 1. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman. 2. A sort of crowbar for digging. [Obs.] --Mortimer.Pitcher
Pitch"er\, n. [OE. picher, OF. pichier, OHG. pehhar, pehh[=a]ri; prob. of the same origin as E. beaker. Cf. Beaker.]1. 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. (Bot.) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. American pitcher plants, the species of Sarracenia. See Sarracenia. Australian pitcher plant, the Cephalotus follicularis, a low saxifragaceous herb having two kinds of radical leaves, some oblanceolate and entire, others transformed into little ovoid pitchers, longitudinally triple-winged and ciliated, the mouth covered with a lid shaped like a cockleshell. California pitcher plant, the Darlingtonia California. See Darlingtonia. Pitcher plant, any plant with the whole or a part of the leaves transformed into pitchers or cuplike organs, especially the species of Nepenthes. See Nepenthes.
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Language Translation for : pitcher
Spanish:
lanzador,
German:
der, *die Werfer(in),
Japanese:
ピッチャー
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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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).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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pitcher
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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