1. [n]  the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit; "he has played every position except pitcher"; "they have a southpaw on the mound"
2. [n]  an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring
3. [n]  (baseball or softball) the person who does the pitching; "our pitcher has a sore arm"
4. [n]  the quantity contained in a pitcher

1. \Pitch"er\, n.
   1. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.;
      specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball
      to the batsman.
   2. A sort of crowbar for digging. [Obs.] --Mortimer.
   

2. \Pitch"er\, n. [OE. picher, OF. pichier, OHG. pehhar,
   pehh[=a]ri; prob. of the same origin as E. beaker. Cf.
   {Beaker}.]
   1. 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.
   2. (Bot.) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the
      leaves of certain plants.
   {American pitcher plants}, the species of Sarracenia. See
      {Sarracenia}.
   {Australian pitcher plant}, the {Cephalotus follicularis}, a
      low saxifragaceous herb having two kinds of radical
      leaves, some oblanceolate and entire, others transformed
      into little ovoid pitchers, longitudinally triple-winged
      and ciliated, the mouth covered with a lid shaped like a
      cockleshell.
   {California pitcher plant}, the {Darlingtonia California}.
      See {Darlingtonia}.
   {Pitcher plant}, any plant with the whole or a part of the
      leaves transformed into pitchers or cuplike organs,
      especially the species of {Nepenthes}. See {Nepenthes}.
   

a vessel for containing liquids. In the East pitchers were usually carried on the head or shoulders (Gen. 24:15-20; Judg. 7:16, 19; Mark 14:13).