Word Meanings - PITCHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically , the player who delivers the ball to the batsman. 2. A sort of crowbar for digging. Mortimer.

Related words: (words related to PITCHER)

• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• CROWBAR
  A bar of iron sharpened at one end, and used as a lever.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• DIGGERS
  A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food.
• DIGGER
  One who, or that which, digs. Digger wasp , any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera.
• BATSMAN
  The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.
• PLAYER
  1. One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. Shak. 2. One who plays any game. 3. A dramatic actor. Shak. 4. One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16. 5. A gamester;
• DIGGABLE
  Capable of being dug.
• DIGGING
  Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained. 3. pl. (more info) 1. The act or the place of excavating. 2. pl.
• ANYTHING
  1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• STAGEPLAYER
  An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.
• SCRATCH PLAYER; SCRATCH RUNNER
  One that starts from the scratch; hence, one of first-rate ability.
• SWORDPLAYER
  A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.