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say it: PICH-ur
pitcher is a noun meaning "(baseball) the person who does the pitching". It is pronounced /ˈpɪtʃɚ/ — PICH-ur. It carries 5 recorded senses.
baseball · softball
an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring
the quantity contained in a pitcher
(botany) a leaf that that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer
botany
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pitcher come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.