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pitch·er1       [pich-er] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a container, usually with a handle and spout or lip, for holding and pouring liquids.
2.Botany.
a.a pitcherlike modification of the leaf of certain plants.
b.an ascidium.
[Origin: 1250–1300; ME picher < OF pichier < ML picārium, var. of bicārium beaker]

—Related forms
pitch·er·like, adjective
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pitch·er2       [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).
[Origin: 1700–10; pitch1 + -er1]
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Pitch·er       [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 
n.  
  1. One that pitches.
  2. Baseball The player who throws the ball from the mound to the batter.
  3. Sports A seven iron used in golf.

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pitch·er 2       (pĭch'ər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A container for liquids, usually having a handle and a lip or spout for pouring.
  2. Botany A pitcherlike part, such as the leaf of a pitcher plant.


[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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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.

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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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American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source - Share This

pitcher

see little pitchers have big ears.


The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Pitcher, NY Zip code(s): 13136

North Pitcher, NY Zip code(s): 13124

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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.

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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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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).

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