Pitcher
Pitcher , noun
1.
(Baseball) 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. [Obsolete] — Mortimer
Pitcher , noun
[Old English picher, Old French pichier, Old High German pehhar, pehhāri; prob. of the same origin as English beaker. Compare 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.
(Botany) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants.
Collocations (4)
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.