pitcher

A vessel with an open spout and generally with a handle, used for holding water, milk, or other liquid.

In botany, a specially adapted tubular or cupshaped modification of the leaf of certain plants, particularly of the genera Nepenthes and Sarracenia; an ascidium. See ascidium, pitcherplant, Nepenthes, and Sarracenia.

One who pitches,

In coal-mining, one who attends to loading at the shaft or other place of loading.

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.

A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants.

the species of Sarracenia. See Sarracenia.

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.

the Darlingtonia California. See Darlingtonia.

any plant with the whole or a part of the leaves transformed into pitchers or cuplike organs, especially the species of Nepenthes. See Nepenthes.