pitcher

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun One who pitches,
• noun In coal-mining, one who attends to loading at the shaft or other place of loading.
• noun A vessel with an open spout and generally with a handle, used for holding water, milk, or other liquid.
• noun In botany, a specially adapted tubular or cupshaped modification of the leaf of certain plants, particularly of the genera Nepenthes and Sarracenia; an ascidium. See ascidium, pitcherplant, Nepenthes, and Sarracenia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.
• noun obsolete A sort of crowbar for digging.
• noun A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.
• noun (Bot.) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants.
• noun the species of Sarracenia. See Sarracenia.
• noun the Cephalotus follicularis, a low saxifragaceous herb having two kinds of radical leaves, some oblanceolate and entire, others transformed into little ovoid pitchers, longitudinally triple-winged and ciliated, the mouth covered with a lid shaped like a cockleshell.
• noun the Darlingtonia California. See Darlingtonia.
• noun any plant with the whole or a part of the leaves transformed into pitchers or cuplike organs, especially the species of Nepenthes. See Nepenthes.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.
• noun baseball, softball , the player who delivers the ball to the batter.
• noun (colloquial) The dominant partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
• noun Obsolete A sort of crowbar for digging.
• noun A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.
• noun botany A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun (baseball) the person who does the pitching
• noun the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit
• noun (botany) a leaf that that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer
• noun an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring
• noun the quantity contained in a pitcher