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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



... ran to get the Raspberry Shrub. She brought a whole pitcher. It tinkled with ice. It sounded nice. When the Old Doctor had drunken it he seemed cooled quite a little. He put the glass down on the table. He saw the ...
— Fairy Prince and Other Stories • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

... a great display of gaudy silk handkerchiefs. Pockets bulged with small articles of loot, and nearly every man lugged some particular treasure according to his fancy, whether it was an alarm clock or a glass pitcher or a bolt of ...
— The Fur Bringers - A Story of the Canadian Northwest • Hulbert Footner

... the Fairy Well in the meadow beyond the bridge of Langaffer must Wattie and Mattie run to fetch water, the best in the land, clear as crystal, and cold as ice; for it required fully three times what they could carry to fill the great stone pitcher ...
— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various

... Pechina, with the jug on her head, was about half-way, Nicolas slid like a wild-cat down the trunk of an elm, among the branches of which he was hiding, and fell like a thunderbolt in front of the girl, who flung away her pitcher and trusted to her fleet legs to regain the pavilion. But a hundred feet farther on, Catherine Tonsard, who was on the watch, rushed out of the wood and knocked so violently against the flying girl that she was thrown down. The violence of the fall made her unconscious. ...
— Sons of the Soil • Honore de Balzac

... restraint does not come soon enough. One day, in Egypt,[1203] on entertaining a number of French ladies at dinner, he has one of them, who was very pretty and whose husband he had just sent off to France, placed alongside of him; suddenly, as if accidentally, he overturns a pitcher of water on her, and, under the pretence of enabling her to rearrange her wet dress, he leads her into another room where he remains with her a long time, too long, while the other guests seated at the table wait quietly and exchange glances. Another day, at Paris, ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 5 (of 6) - The Modern Regime, Volume 1 (of 2)(Napoleon I.) • Hippolyte A. Taine


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