Pitcher vs Baseball - What's the difference?
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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.
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 .
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)
The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.
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. ) + -erNoun
(en noun)External links
* (wikipedia "pitcher")Etymology 2
From (etyl) picher, from (etyl) pichier, . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* little pitchers have big earsExternal links
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* ----baseball
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(wikipedia baseball)Noun
(en noun)- 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.