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Pitcher   /pˈɪtʃər/   Listen
Pitcher

noun
1.
(baseball) the person who does the pitching.  Synonyms: hurler, twirler.
2.
An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring.  Synonym: ewer.
3.
The quantity contained in a pitcher.  Synonym: pitcherful.
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.  Synonym: mound.  "They have a southpaw on the mound"



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"Pitcher" Quotes from Famous Books



... exquisite glowing pelargoniums and snow-white or pale-blue iris would clothe the baked earth. The ice-plant would no longer be the only green thing growing in the crannies of the rock. Delicate ferns and dew-gemmed pitcher-plants would quiver there, and the spikes of the many-coloured gladioli would thrust from the earth like spears; and the sweet-scented clematis and the passion-vine would trail and blossom in rose and white and purple on the edges of the kloofs and gorges, every stem and leaf and bud and ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... Bobby. The single beds were separated by a table on which an electric drop light and the water pitcher and glasses were placed. ...
— Betty Gordon at Boarding School - The Treasure of Indian Chasm • Alice Emerson

... past year, she had entered her cottage, carrying a pitcher of water down from the well in her garden. It was the last time she crossed her threshold. When her door was opened, she was found alone on her knees; BUT her spirit had fled! PRAYER, as it had been her ever fond ...
— The Cities of Refuge: or, The Name of Jesus - A Sunday book for the young • John Ross Macduff

... soft-slippered Chinese emerged on the sleeping-porch. In his hands he bore a small tray of burnished copper on which rested a cup and saucer, a tiny coffee pot of silver, and a correspondingly tiny silver cream pitcher. ...
— The Little Lady of the Big House • Jack London

... on thy waveless breast. The rustic here at eve with pensive look Whistling lorn ditties leans upon his crook, Or, starting, pauses with hope-mingled dread To list the much-lov'd maid's accustom'd tread: 20 She, vainly mindful of her dame's command, Loiters, the long-fill'd pitcher in her hand. ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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