See Also: pitcher(dictionary)
pitcher(2)(dictionary)
pitcher(1)(dictionary)
Pitcher(medicine)
Pitcher - Golf(gambling)
water pitcher(medicine)
Pitcher, Molly(encyclopedia)
pitcher plant(encyclopedia)
Relief Pitcher - Baseball(gambling)
Listed Pitcher (Lp) - General(gambling)

pitcher(1) (iou)



pitcher noun1. ME.
[Old French pichier, pechier pot (mod. pichet) from Frankish, rel. to BEAKER.]
A large usu. earthenware vessel with a handle and usu. a lip, for holding and pouring out liquids; a jug; a jug-shaped or vase-shaped vessel. ME.
W. Styron I circle the table with the china pitcher of foaming cider.
Botany. The pitcher-like structure of a pitcher-plant (see below). M19.
In pl. Fragments of broken pottery crushed and reused in the manufacturing process. M20.
Comb.: pitcher-house a room for the storage of wine and ale; pitcher-plant any of certain carnivorous plants bearing deep lidded pitcher-like structures with a liquid secretion at the bottom, in which insects are trapped and drowned; esp. (a) any plant of the N. American genus Sarracenia (family Sarraceniaceae), in which the pitchers take the form of modified leaves; (b) any plant of the chiefly SE Asian genus Nepenthes (family Nepenthaceae), in which the pitchers are at the end of the leaf tendrils.
pitcherful noun as much as a pitcher will hold; the contents of a pitcher: LME.
pitcher-like adjective resembling a pitcher in shape or function M19.