pitcher

CEFRB2

/ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ə/

noun

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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A “pitchometer” was installed on the scoreboard to time the pitchers. According the baseball rules a pitcher had to throw a pitch within 20 seconds after he received the ball from the catcher when there was nobody on base.
2003, John E. Peterson, The Kansas City Athletics: A Baseball History: 1954–1967, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 210
To the residents of Spanish Harlem, these pitchers embodied the drug trade at its most sinister; they were the dealers and pushers who were destroying their neighborhood.
2000, Michael Massing, The Fix, page 67
At length, in a refrigerator, Eve finds a glass pitcher of water, pure, cold, and bright as ever gushed from a fountain among the hills.
1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The New Adam and Eve”, in Mosses from an Old Manse
She's purtier'n uh pitcher, son, but what in th' name o' thunderin' snakes c'n you do with 'er in this here country?
1934, William Byron Mowery, Challenge of the North
Nineteen sixty-nine, shore as hell, Clay Lawrence —that magazine had uh pitcher of ya—was uh All-American defensive back at the University of Missouri.
2015, Stephen Gresham, Rockabye Baby

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