Pitcher Meaning
/ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ə/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounOne who pitches (in any sense) anything
nounThe player who delivers the ball to the batter.
Sentence Examples
Everyone considers Nomo a great pitcher.
Ted is the second pitcher on the baseball team.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The server placed a glass ____ of iced tea on the table.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The baseball ____ threw a fastball that the batter completely missed for the third strike.
Word Origin & History
From pitch + -er.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime."
— 1863, Blanchard Jerrold, Signals of Distress in Refuges and Homes of Charity (etc.), page 2:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The server placed a glass ____ of iced tea on the table.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The baseball ____ threw a fastball that the batter completely missed for the third strike.