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.
2.
A sort of crowbar for digging.
[Obs.]
Mortimer.
© Webster 1913.
Pitch"er (?), n. [OE. picher, OF. pichier, OHG. pehhar, pehhari; 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.
2. Bot.
A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants.
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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