Noun: pitcher
| Singular | pitcher |
| Plural | pitchers |
Sample Sentences
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A tent pitcher
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A pitcher of ideas
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A quoits pitcher
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
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The pitcher of the new film stands to earn millions.
Nouns inflected like pitcher
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From pitch + -er.
Verbs referencing "pitcher"
Romanian Nouns
pahar, French Nouns
pichet, Galician Nouns
pichel, Spanish Nouns
pichel, Catalan Nouns
pitxer.