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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PITCH'ER, n.
1. An earthen vessel with a spout for pouring out liquors. This is its present signification. It seems formerly to have signified a water pot, jug or jar with ears.
2. An instrument for piercing the ground.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (baseball) the person who does the pitching; "our pitcher has a sore arm" [syn: pitcher, hurler, twirler]
2: an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring [syn: pitcher, ewer]
3: the quantity contained in a pitcher [syn: pitcher, 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; "he has played every position except pitcher"; "they have a southpaw on the mound" [syn: pitcher, mound]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English picher, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin bicarius drinking cup Date: 13th century 1. a container for holding and pouring liquids that usually has a lip or spout and a handle 2. a modified leaf of a pitcher plant in which the hollowed petiole and base of the blade form an elongated receptacle • pitcherful noun II. noun Date: circa 1722 one that pitches; specifically the player who pitches in a game of baseball

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. 1 a large usu. earthenware jug with a lip and a handle, for holding liquids. 2 a modified leaf in pitcher form. 3 (in pl.) broken pottery crushed and reused. Phrases and idioms: pitcher-plant any of various plants, esp. of the family Nepenthaceae or Sarraceniaceae, with pitcher leaves that can hold liquids, trap insects, etc. Derivatives: pitcherful n. (pl. -fuls). Etymology: ME f. OF pichier, pechier, f. Frank. 2. n. 1 a person or thing that pitches. 2 Baseball a player who delivers the ball to the batter. 3 a stone used for paving.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pitcher Pitch"er, n. 1. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman. 2. A sort of crowbar for digging. [Obs.] --Mortimer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pitcher Pitch"er, n. [OE. picher, OF. pichier, OHG. pehhar, pehh[=a]ri; prob. of the same origin as E. beaker. Cf. Beaker.] 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. 2. (Bot.) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. American pitcher plants, the species of Sarracenia. See Sarracenia. Australian pitcher plant, the Cephalotus follicularis, a low saxifragaceous herb having two kinds of radical leaves, some oblanceolate and entire, others transformed into little ovoid pitchers, longitudinally triple-winged and ciliated, the mouth covered with a lid shaped like a cockleshell. California pitcher plant, the Darlingtonia California. See Darlingtonia. Pitcher plant, any plant with the whole or a part of the leaves transformed into pitchers or cuplike organs, especially the species of Nepenthes. See Nepenthes.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(pitchers) 1. A pitcher is a jug. (mainly AM) ...a pitcher of iced water. N-COUNT 2. A pitcher is a large container made of clay. Pitchers are usually round in shape and have a narrow neck and two handles shaped like ears. N-COUNT 3. In baseball, the pitcher is the person who throws the ball to the batter, who tries to hit it. N-COUNT

Easton's Bible Dictionary

a vessel for containing liquids. In the East pitchers were usually carried on the head or shoulders (Gen. 24:15-20; Judg. 7:16, 19; Mark 14:13).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

pich'-er (kadh; keramion): The word is found chiefly in the Old Testament in the story of Rebekah in Ge 24:13 ff; but Gideon's men also had their lamps in pitchers (Jud 7:16,19). Ecclesiastes speaks of the pitcher broken at the fountain (12:6). The single use in the New Testament is in Mr 14:13 parallel Lu 22:10. The pitcher was an earthenware vessel (compare La 4:2, nebhel), with one or two handles, used for carrying water, and commonly borne upon the head or shoulder (compare Ge 24).

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Jug, jar, pot, ewer.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

The miraculous pitcher, that holds water with the mouth downwards: a woman's commodity. She has crack'd her pitcher or pipkin; she has lost her maidenhead.