Pitcher vs Pickoff - What's the difference?
pitcher | pickoff |
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 .
(baseball) A play in which a pitcher throws a live ball to a fielder so that the fielder can tag out a baserunner who has moved away from the base
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 6, author=Tyler Kepner, title=Pettitte’s Return Lost Amid Sloppy Play, work=New York Times
, passage=Zobrist broke for third during Pettitte’s pickoff move, stealing the base when Pettitte threw behind the runner. }}
As nouns the difference between pitcher and pickoff
is that pitcher is one who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc while pickoff is a play in which a pitcher throws a live ball to a fielder so that the fielder can tag out a baserunner who has moved away from the base.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
*Anagrams
* ----pickoff
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(en noun)citation