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(baseball or softball) the person who does the pitching
Answer for the clue "(baseball or softball) the person who does the pitching ", 7 letters:
twirler
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Word definitions for twirler in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who twirls a baton [syn: baton twirler ] (baseball) the person who does the pitching; "our pitcher has a sore arm" [syn: pitcher , hurler ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Something that twirls. 2 Someone who twirls something.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1808, agent noun from twirl (v.). As baseball slang for "pitcher," by 1891.
Usage examples of twirler.
It was too far to try to throw, and there was just no way Orin was making another solo walk up the sideline and then back off the field again under the distant green gaze of the twirler who owned his CNS.
He had achieved lasting greatness during his lifetime, not as a lariat twirler or even as a humorist, for this was merely the frosting on his philosophy.
The crazy man spun the stick like a baton twirler, but with both hands.
The Twirlers had begun using radio centuries before humanity had, and so a high-speed Tosok mothership had been dispatched to that star, arriving there thirty-odd years ago.
Although it took decades, the Twirlers had managed to defeat the Tosoks.
There were twenty-six Twirlers aboard their beautiful mothership, but it was Tony who served as the sole communicator with humanity.
So, yes, the Twirlers are going to take me with them when they return home.
When she danced, at dances, it was with other cheerleaders and twirlers and Pep Squad Terrierettes, because no male had the grit or spit to ask her.
Helmholtz, singing, marching in place, would become flag twirlers, drummers, brasses, woodwinds, glockenspiel and all.
If the sore arm that Frankel picked up last summer is cured, he should be one of the great Northwestern twirlers of the decade.
Helmholtz, singing, marching in place, would become flag twirlers, drummers, brasses, woodwinds, glockenspiel and all.
The real football reason, in all its inevitable real-reason banality, was that, over the course of weeks of dawns of watching the autosprinklers and the Pep Squad (which really did practice at dawn) practices, Orin had developed a horrible schoolboy-grade crush, complete with dilated pupils and weak knees, for a certain big-haired sophomore baton-twirler he watched twirl and strut from a distance through the diffracted spectrum of the plumed sprinklers, all the way across the field's dewy turf, a twirler who'd attended a few of the All-Athletic-Team mixers Orin and his strabismic B.
All she wanted from life was to be one day a strutting and prancing baton twirler or a jitterbug.
In fact, there ought to be a new event in the Sydney Olympics called excuse-making, right after synchronized swimming and those ridiculous ribbon twirlers.