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Webster 1913 Edition
Pitcher
Pitch′er
,Noun.
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.
Pitch′er
,Noun.
[OE.
picher
, OF. pichier
, OHG. pehhar
, pehhāri
; 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
.Webster 1828 Edition
Pitcher
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.