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Pitcher vs Baseball - What's the difference?

pitcher | baseball |

As nouns the difference between pitcher and baseball

is that pitcher is one who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc or pitcher can be 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 while baseball is baseball (ballgame).

pitcher

English

(Webster 1913)

Etymology 1

(wikipedia pitcher) (to throw, etc. ) + -er

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.
  • (baseball, softball), the player who delivers the ball to the batter.
  • (chiefly, US, colloquial) The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
  • (obsolete) A sort of crowbar for digging.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) picher, from (etyl) pichier, . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en 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.
  • (botany) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See .
  • Derived terms
    * little pitchers have big ears

    Anagrams

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    baseball

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
  • * 1797-1798 , (Jane Austen), (Northanger Abbey)
  • It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball , riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books.
  • The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
  • A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
  • Derived terms

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    See also

    * rounders * softball * wiffleball * ----