pitcher
/ˈpɪtʃə/ · noun
Meaning
- One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.
- , the player who delivers the ball to the batter.
- The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
- A sort of crowbar for digging.
- 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.
- A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.
- A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
- An image; a representation as in the imagination.
- A painting.
- A photograph.
- A motion picture.
- (in the plural) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
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