pitcher

UK: /ˈpɪtʃə^r/ US: /ˈpɪtʃɚ/ ,(pich′ər)

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

pitch•er¹ /ˈpɪtʃɚ/   n. [countable]

1. a container for liquids, usually with a handle and spout or lip.

pitch•er² /ˈpɪtʃɚ/   n. [countable]

1. one who pitches.
2. Sport [Baseball.] the player who throws the ball to the opposing batter.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

pitch•er¹  (pich′ər), n. 

1. a container, usually with a handle and spout or lip, for holding and pouring liquids.
2. [Bot.]
   • Botany a pitcherlike modification of the leaf of certain plants.
   • Botany an ascidium.

• Medieval Latin picārium, variant of bicārium beaker
• Old French pichier
• Middle English picher 1250–1300

pitch′er•like′, adj. 

pitch•er²  (pich′ər), n. 

1. a person who pitches.
2. Sport [Baseball.] the player who throws the ball to the opposing batter.
3. Sport Also called number seven iron. [Golf.] a club with an iron head the face of which has more slope than a mashie but less slope than a pitching niblick.
4. sett (def. 1).

• pitch¹ + -er¹ 1700–10

Pitch•er  (pich′ər), n. 

1. Biographical Molly (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley), 1754–1832, American Revolutionary heroine.

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pitcher / ˈpɪtʃə/ noun

1. a large jug, usually rounded with a narrow neck and often of earthenware, used mainly for holding water

Etymology: 13th Century: from Old French pichier, from Medieval Latin picārium, variant of bicārium beaker

pitcher / ˈpɪtʃə/ noun

1. the player on the fielding team who pitches the ball to the batter