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Pitcher

noun

(baseball) the person who does the pitching. Synonyms: hurler, twirler.

An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring. Synonym: ewer.

The quantity contained in a pitcher. Synonym: pitcherful.

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

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

... forced to leave her, seated on a stone beneath a thorn-bush, distaff in hand, with bread, cheese, and a pitcher of milk for her provisions, and three or four cows grazing before her. From the higher ground below the wood of ash and hazel, she could see the undulating fields and orchards, a few houses, and that inhospitable ...

— The Chaplet of Pearls • Charlotte M. Yonge

... out of the hut. She is in mourning garb, and carries a large pitcher on her head. She speaks without observing ...

— The Electra of Euripides • Euripides

... small pitcher under her cape she started bravely forth on a foraging expedition. After walking a few blocks she came to a white house whose woodhouse joined the alley. Hiding behind a barrel she watched and waited ...

— Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley • Belle K. Maniates

... about twenty feet high, with long narrow lanceolate leaves, and a very round bushy top. By the side of the small streams running through the flat ground, I saw a curious herbaceous plant, with large pitchers at the end of the leaves, like those of the common pitcher-plant (Nepenthes distillatoria). It was too late in the season to find flowers, but the flower-stems were about eighteen inches high, and the pitchers would hold about a wine-glass full of water. This interesting ...

— Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Vol. 2 (of 2) • John MacGillivray

... the newsboy. "Dis is de van der Griffs' and tonight dey are giving a swell dinner for General Grant. Dat lady wot just went in was old Mrs. Rhinelander. I seen her pitcher in de last Harper's Weekly and dere was a story in de paper dis morning dat her daughter Geraldine was ...

— A Parody Outline of History • Donald Ogden Stewart

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