pitcher
nounEtymology
From Middle English picher, from Old French pichier, pechier (“small jug”), bichier (compare modern French pichet), from Late Latin or Medieval Latin pīcārium, alteration of bīcārium, itself possibly from bacarium, bacar or from Ancient Greek βῖκος (bîkos). Doublet of beaker.
Definitions
One who pitches (in any sense) anything
- A tent pitcher
- A pitcher of ideas
- A quoits pitcher
The player who delivers the ball to the batter.
- 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.
A drug dealer.
- 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.
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One who puts counterfeit money into circulation.
- 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.
The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between…
The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
A sort of crowbar for digging.
One who makes a pitch or proposal.
- The pitcher of the new film stands to earn millions.
A person who sells anything in the streets.
A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a…
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.
- 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.
A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher…
A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.
Pronunciation spelling of picture, representing dialectal English.
- She's purtier'n uh pitcher, son, but what in th' name o' thunderin' snakes c'n you do with 'er in this here country?
- Nineteen sixty-nine, shore as hell, Clay Lawrence —that magazine had uh pitcher of ya—was uh All-American defensive back at the University of Missouri.
A surname.
The neighborhood
- neighborflagon
Derived
fly-pitcher, nonpitcher, pitchered, pitcherlike, relief pitcher, starting pitcher, switch pitcher, Charley-pitcher, little pitcher, little pitchers have big ears, pitcher-bawd, pitcherful, pitcher plant, pitcher sage, rinse-pitcher, the pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at pitcher. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at pitcher. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at pitcher
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA