pitcher — English Dictionary

Noun

1. One who pitches (in any sense) anything

   Examples

   A tent pitcher

   A pitcher of ideas

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   A quoits pitcher

2. The player who delivers the ball to the batter.

   Broader terms

   baseball player

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   A “pitchometer” was installed on the scoreboard to time the pitchers. According the baseball rules a pitcher had to throw a pitch within 20 seconds after he received the ball from the catcher when there was nobody on base.

3. A drug dealer.

   Usage

   • Slang

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   To the residents of Spanish Harlem, these pitchers embodied the drug trade at its most sinister; they were the dealers and pushers who were destroying their neighborhood.

4. One who puts counterfeit money into circulation.

   Usage

   • UK usage
   • Obsolete
   • Slang

   Synonyms

   snide pitcher

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   To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.

5. The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.

   Usage

   • US usage
   • Colloquial

   Synonyms

   top

6. A sort of crowbar for digging.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

7. One who makes a pitch or proposal.

   Examples

   The pitcher of the new film stands to earn millions.

8. A person who sells anything in the streets.

   Usage

   • UK usage
   • Obsolete
   • Slang

Noun

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.

   Examples

   At length, in a refrigerator, Eve finds a glass pitcher of water, pure, cold, and bright as ever gushed from a fountain among the hills.

2. A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.

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   Walking into the pitcher on downward pointing hairs, victims slip and drown in the funnel. But this beetle (left) was observed to visit with impunity and even appeared to be scavenging insect bodies from the pitcher.

Noun

1. (baseball) the person who does the pitching

   Synonyms

   hurlertwirler

   Broader terms

   throwerballplayerbaseball player

   Examples

   our pitcher has a sore arm

2. an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring

   Synonyms

   ewer

   Broader terms

   vessel

3. the quantity contained in a pitcher

   Synonyms

   pitcherful

   Broader terms

   containerful

4. (botany) a leaf that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer

   Broader terms

   leafleafagefoliage

5. the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit

   Synonyms

   mound

   Broader terms

   position

   Examples

   he has played every position except pitcher

   they have a southpaw on the mound