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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Pitcher

/pĭch'-ẽr/ · Pitch·er · IPA /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ɚ/
01 n. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.
  1. 1.
    One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.(Baseball)
  2. 2.
    A sort of crowbar for digging.[Obs.]
02 n. 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.
  1. 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. 2.
    A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants.(Bot.)
Phrases & compounds
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.