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Pitcher vs Gallon - What's the difference?

pitcher | gallon |

As nouns the difference between pitcher and gallon

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 gallon is a unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints.

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.
    • External links
    * (wikipedia "pitcher")

    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
    External links
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    Anagrams

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    gallon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints
  • (British, Canadian) exactly 4.54609 liters; an imperial gallon
  • (US) 231 cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters for liquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon ")
  • (US) one-eighth of a U.S. bushel or approximately 4.405 liters for dry goods (a "U.S. dry gallon ").
  • (in the plural, informal) A large quantity (of any liquid).
    • The pipe burst and gallons of water flooded into the kitchen.

    Anagrams

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    External links

    * (wikipedia "gallon") ---- ==Jèrriais==

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