Pitcher

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that pitches.
  • n. Baseball The player who throws the ball from the mound to the batter.
  • n. Sports A seven iron used in golf.
  • n. A container for liquids, usually having a handle and a lip or spout for pouring.
  • n. Botany A pitcherlike part, such as the leaf of a pitcher plant.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
  • n. A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.
  • n. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.
  • n. , the player who delivers the ball to the batter.
  • n. (colloquial) The dominant partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
  • n. A sort of crowbar for digging.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.
  • n. A sort of crowbar for digging.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who pitches,
  • n. In coal-mining, one who attends to loading at the shaft or other place of loading.
  • n. A vessel with an open spout and generally with a handle, used for holding water, milk, or other liquid.
  • n. In botany, a specially adapted tubular or cupshaped modification of the leaf of certain plants, particularly of the genera Nepenthes and Sarracenia; an ascidium. See ascidium, pitcherplant, Nepenthes, and Sarracenia.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (baseball) the person who does the pitching
  • n. the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit
  • n. (botany) a leaf that that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer
  • n. an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring
  • n. the quantity contained in a pitcher
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    position    foliage    leafage    leaf    containerful   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ewer    jug    urceus    urceolus   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    picher    richer    switcher    witcher   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    jug    bowl    jar    bottle    flask    goblet    tray    vase    basin    bucket