Pitcher

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪtʃə(r)

to pitch (to throw, etc.) + -er

Full definition of pitcher

Noun

1. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.
2. (baseball, softball), the player who delivers the ball to the batter.
3. (chiefly US, colloquial) The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
4. (obsolete) A sort of crowbar for digging.

From Middle English picher, from Old French pichier, pechier ("small jug"), from Old High German pehhar, pehhāri ("beaker, cup") (compare Medieval Latin picarium, alteration of bicarium). More at beaker.

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

Derived terms

• little pitchers have big ears

Anagrams

• Petrich