Found 4 items, similar to Pitcher.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: pitch
nada
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: pitcher
kendi, pelempar bola
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: pitcher
pitcher
n 1: (baseball) the person who does the pitching;
“our pitcher
has a sore arm” [syn:
hurler,
twirler]
2: an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring [syn:
ewer]
3: the quantity contained in a pitcher [syn:
pitcherful]
4: the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the
ball for a batter to try to hit;
“he has played every
position except pitcher”;
“they have a southpaw on the
mound” [syn:
mound]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Pitcher
Pitcher
\Pitch"er\, n. [OE. picher, OF. pichier, OHG. pehhar,
pehh[=a]ri; prob. of the same origin as E. beaker. Cf.
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.
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2. (Bot.) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the
leaves of certain plants.
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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.
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Pitcher
\Pitch"er\, n.
1. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.;
specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball
to the batsman.
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2. A sort of crowbar for digging. [Obs.] --Mortimer.
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