pitcher

noun10

1. •
   One who pitches (in any sense) anything
2. •
   The player who delivers the ball to the batter.
3. •
   One who makes a pitch or proposal.

   • The pitcher of the new film stands to earn millions.
4. •
   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.

   • At length, in a refrigerator, Eve finds a glass pitcher of water, pure, cold, and bright as ever gushed from a fountain among the hills. — 1846
5. •
   A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.
6. •
   (slang) A drug dealer.

   • To the residents of Spanish Harlem, these pitchers embodied the drug trade at its most sinister; they were the dealers and pushers who were destroying their neighborhood. — 2000
7. •
   (informal, slang) The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
8. •
   (slang, no longer used) A person who sells anything in the streets.
9. •
   (slang, no longer used) One who puts counterfeit money into circulation.

   • To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime. — 1863
10. •
    (no longer used) A sort of crowbar for digging.