Pitcher vs Cattle - 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 .
Domesticated bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc).
Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or horses.
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(pejorative, figuratively) People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny.
* {{quote-book, 1961, Gerald Hanley, The Journey Homeward, page=155
, passage="I always knew it, but I always denied it, because I'm one of them, and I'm like them." ¶"We're just cattle ," the Prison Governor said, relieved now.}}
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* {{quote-book, 1552, Parliament of England, An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer, and Service in the Church, and Administration of the Sacraments
, passage=That then every person so offending and convict, shall for his third offence, forfeit to our Sovereign Lady the Queen, all his goods and cattles , and shall suffer imprisonment during his life.}}
* {{quote-book, 1684, , Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England, year_published=1856
, passage=1684 July. Mistris Dorothy Gray, Adminnestratrix of the Goods and Cattles of Mr Edward Gray, late of Plymouth, deceased,
(uncountable, rare)
* , The Squatting Age in Australia, 1835–1847 , Melbourne University Press (1964), page 315:
* Barry Hannah, “Eating Wife and Friends”, in Airships , Grove Press (1994), ISBN 978-0-8021-3388-5,
* 1996 April 3, Emmett Jordan, "
* 2005 June 25, "Serge" (username), "
As nouns the difference between pitcher and cattle
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 cattle is domesticated bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc).pitcher
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(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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English
(wikipedia cattle)Noun
(usually used as plural)- Do you want to raise cattle ?
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- goods and cattle
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- The temptation of a lone white man was too great for any gathering of myall -natives, and sheep-fat and cattle -steak seemed there for the spearing, so that a stockman always ran the risk of attack, especially if his shepherds interfered with the native women.
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- “But you cooked a human being and ate him,” say I.
- “I couldn’t help it,” says she. “I remember the cattle steaks of the old days, the juicy pork, the dripping joints of lamb, the venison.”
Re: AR activist arrested for spreading 'Mad Cow' disease in US", in rec.food.veg, Usenet :
- Believe it or not Big Mac is one of the ultra radicals who provide fast food cattle burgers to interstate vehicles who drive all over the place providing scraps for rats, cats, flies, etc, so that the Mad Cow Disease might spread even faster than it would otherwise do.
Re: WOW!!!! WHALE BURGERS...... McDonalds Don't You Get Any Ideas", in aus.politics and other newsgroups, Usenet :
- If a particular whale species isn't endangered, then there's not a blind bit of difference between butchering them or cattle.
- Whale burgers. Cattle burgers......no difference!