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An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring
Answer for the clue "An open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring ", 7 letters:
pitcher
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc. 2 (context baseball softball English), the player who delivers the ball to the batter. 3 (context chiefly US colloquial English) The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pitcher \Pitch"er\, n. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman. A sort of crowbar for digging. [Obs.] --Mortimer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"earthen jug," c.1200, from Old French pichier (12c.), altered from bichier , from Medieval Latin bicarium , probably from Greek bikos "earthen vessel" (see beaker ). Pitcher-plant is recorded from 1819; so called for its resemblance.
Usage examples of pitcher.
Lynn Flewelling Seregil must have been generous, Alec thought as she piled his trencher with plump sausages and oat porridge, then fetched a pitcher of milk and some hot ash cakes to go with it.
Jerome crossed to one of the tables, where a pitcher of water sat next to a bowl of olives and some fancy glasses, and quickly prepared the aqueous martinis.
Jack Ready as catcher and Badger as pitcher, went out to meet the team from Hartford that forenoon.
He was also a fairly good left-handed pitcher, and a rattling good batsman, who excelled in fair-foul hitting.
He was a remarkable fielder and a good batsman for a pitcher, men who play that position being poor wielders of the ash, as a rule, for the reason, as I have always thought, that they paid more attention to the art of deceiving the batsman that are opposed to them than they do to developing their own batting powers.
Hindu women, pitchers and basins of that exquisite damascening called bidri, and a soft-colored silken scarf--coiled and crumpled, as if a woman had dropped it hurriedly.
In 1972, scouting for the Houston Astros, Bogie administered what he believes to have been the first ever baseball psychological test, to a pitcher named Dick Ruthven.
It was not the trees and lianas only that were beautiful in these sunny openings, but the ferns, mosses, orchids, and selaginellas, with the crimson-tipped dracaena, and the crimson-veined caladium, and the great red nepenthe with purple blotches on its nearly diaphanous pitchers, and another pitcher-plant of an epiphytal habit, with pea-green pitchers scrambling to a great height over the branches of the smaller trees.
There is a pool table in the rear, a pitcher of beer sells for a dollar, and the faded Chicano barmaid rolls dice with the patrons to keep the jukebox going.
On the rare occasion that the Benji women had any extra chicha, they sold it to Fiona, and she always saved a pitcher of two for Max.
On the front shelf of the bar stood a large German-silver pitcher of water, and scattered about were ill-conditioned lamps, with wicks that always wanted picking, which burned red and smoked a good deal, and were apt to go out without any obvious cause, leaving strong reminiscences of the whale-fishery in the circumambient air.
She pushed through the brass-decorated double doors and entered a sitting room with sofas, coffe table, television and a sideboard containing herbal teas, decaffeinated coffe and a frosty pitcher of ic water filled with lemon slics.
Before, in that dreaming time, I saw that I had drawn water like the Danaides, in a pitcher full of holes.
Although Demain had no way of knowing it, she was now hitting against a big-league pitcher with incredibly good breaking stuff.
Then, Cerryl took a moment to drink the remainder of the lukewarm cider from the pitcher and slip two apples from the bowl into his tunic before easing toward the door beside the hearth.