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UK
/pˈɪtʃɐ/
]
[ US /ˈpɪtʃɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɪtʃɝ/ ]
NOUN
- an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring
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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 - (botany) a leaf that that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer
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(baseball) the person who does the pitching
our pitcher has a sore arm - the quantity contained in a pitcher
How To Use pitcher In A Sentence
- Can you tell me what the major league record is for most consecutive batters retired by a pitcher and who holds it?
- Wet meadows between rock outcrops include grasses, sedges, mosses, pitcher plant Saracenia purpurea, sundew Drosera sp. and purple fringed orchid Habenaria psycodes. Gros Morne National Park, Canada
- When the dork came to bat, he was waving the bat back and forth with the label aimed straight at the pitcher. WHY is the FOUL POLE FAIR?
- It is no more a sign of weakness to change leadership in wartime if success depends on it than it is to remove a baseball pitcher who is getting shelled in order to prevent the game from becoming hopelessly lost.
- Other amazing samples from the plant world will be revealed to the children, including plants with armbands to help them swim and meat-eating plants like the Pitcher plant, which is on loan from Cardiff University.
- The third-string pitcher, a kid named Ingrid, has pitched a great game.
- Don't believe the pitcher baloney.
- a relief pitcher took over in the top of the fifth
- Few position players or pitchers maintain an even remotely uniform level of effectiveness.
- He blocked errant pitches in the dirt, expertly framed borderline tosses, turning them into strikes and worked masterfully with pitchers.