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Pitcher

noun

(baseball) the person who does the pitching. Synonyms: hurler, twirler.

An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring. Synonym: ewer.

The quantity contained in a pitcher. Synonym: pitcherful.

(botany) a leaf that that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer.

The position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit. Synonym: mound. "They have a southpaw on the mound"

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"Pitcher" Quotes from Famous Books

... to fix a gulf between us and the Infinite Sufficiency. It would always have us believe that that sufficiency is not our own, but that by an act of uncertain favour we may have occasional spoonfuls of it doled out to us. Christ's teaching is different. We do not need to come with our pitcher to the well to draw water, like the woman of Samaria, but we have in ourselves an inexhaustible supply of the living water springing ...

— The Hidden Power - And Other Papers upon Mental Science • Thomas Troward

... Andrew set the child down, caught her up again with a sounding kiss. "Don't you let your big ears ache, you little pitcher," said he, with a gay laugh. "Little doll-babies like you haven't anythin' to worry about if Lloyd's shut down every ...

— The Portion of Labor • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... black table such a cleaning as she could with the broom and bunches of grass. Behind the house was a lilac-bush, covered with lovely fragrant clusters of blossoms; she gathered a huge bunch of them, and putting them in a broken pitcher with water, set them in the middle of the table. Meanwhile Rose had found two or three peonies and some sweet-william, and with these and some ribbon-grass had made quite a brilliant bouquet, which was laid beside the one cracked ...

— Hildegarde's Holiday - a story for girls • Laura E. Richards

... about that time, and how I sold Castel Serveti and came to live here in Rome. Nino was brought to me here. One day in the autumn a carrettiere from Serveti, who would sometimes stop at my door and leave me a basket of grapes in the vintage, or a pitcher of fresh oil in winter, because he never used to pay his house-rent when I was his landlord—but he is a good fellow, Gigi—and so he tries to make amends now; well, as I was saying, he came one day and gave me a great basket of fine grapes, and ...

— A Roman Singer • F. Marion Crawford

... of an hour passed. I resolved, under the pressing circumstances, to resort to extreme measures. I threw a pitcher of cold water over Rouletabille's head. He opened his eyes. I beat his face, and raised him up. I felt him stiffen in my arms and heard him murmur: "Go on, go on; but don't make any noise." I pinched him and shook him until he was able to stand ...

— The Mystery of the Yellow Room • Gaston Leroux

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