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pitch·er1
[pich-er] Pronunciation Key
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[pich-er] Pronunciation Key –noun
| 1. | a container, usually with a handle and spout or lip, for holding and pouring liquids. |
| 2. | Botany.
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pitch·er·like, adjective
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pitch·er2
[pich-er] Pronunciation Key
[pich-er] Pronunciation Key –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). |
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Pitch·er
[pich-er] Pronunciation Key
[pich-er] Pronunciation Key –noun
Molly (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley ), 1754–1832, American Revolutionary heroine. |
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| pitch·er 1
(pĭch'ər) Pronunciation Key
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| pitch·er 2
(pĭch'ər) Pronunciation Key
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.] |
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| Pitch·er
(pĭch'ər) Pronunciation Key
See Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley. |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
pitcher
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 | |
noun | |
| 1. | (baseball) the person who does the pitching; "our pitcher has a sore arm" |
| 2. | an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring |
| 3. | the quantity contained in a pitcher |
| 4. | (botany) a leaf that that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer |
| 5. | the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit; "he has played every position except pitcher"; "they have a southpaw on the mound" |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
U.S. Gazetteer - Cite This Source - Share This
Pitcher, NY Zip code(s): 13136
North Pitcher, NY Zip code(s): 13124
U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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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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Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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