pitch´er|like´

pitch´er|like´
pitch|er1 «PIHCH uhr», noun.
1. a container with a lip on one side and a handle on the other. Pitchers are used for holding and pouring out water, milk, and other liquids. »

The water in the pitcher was frozen.

SYNONYM(S): ewer, jug.
2. the amount that a pitcher holds: »

to drink a pitcher of milk.

3. a leaf, or a part of one, modified into the form of a pitcher; ascidium.
╂[< Old French pichier, picher, alteration of bichier < Vulgar Latin bicārium, perhaps < Greek bîkos earthen jar. See etym. of doublet beaker. (Cf. ↑beaker)]
–pitch´er|like´, adjective.
pitch|er2 «PIHCH uhr», noun.
1. the player on a baseball team who throws the ball for the batter to try and hit.
2. a person who pitches hay or straw.
3. a golf club with a metal head that slopes at a relatively flat angle, more than that of a mashie niblick, so as to give loft to the ball when it is hit. It is usually called a “number 7 iron.”
╂[< pitch1 + -er1]

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