Batter vs. Pitcher

Batterverb

To hit or strike violently and repeatedly.

Batterverb

(cooking) To coat with batter (the food ingredient).

Batterverb

(figurative) To defeat soundly; to thrash.

Batterverb

To intoxicate.

Batterverb

(metalworking) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

Batterverb

(architecture) To slope (of walls, buildings etc.).

Batternoun

(cooking) A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying

Batternoun

A binge, a heavy drinking session.

Batternoun

A paste of clay or loam.

Batternoun

(printing) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

Batternoun

An incline on the outer face of a built wall.

Batternoun

(baseball) The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.

Batternoun

The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat; a batsman.

Batterverb

To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.

Batterverb

To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.

Batterverb

To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

Batterverb

To slope gently backward.

Batternoun

A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.

Batternoun

Paste of clay or loam.

Batternoun

A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.

Batternoun

A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.

Batternoun

The one who wields the bat in baseball; the one whose turn it is at bat; formerly called the batsman.

Batternoun

(baseball) a ballplayer who is batting

Batternoun

a flour mixture thin enough to pour or drop from a spoon

Batterverb

strike against forcefully;

Batterverb

strike violently and repeatedly;

Batterverb

make a dent or impression in;

Pitchernoun

One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.

Pitchernoun

, the player who delivers the ball to the batter.

Pitchernoun

The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.

Pitchernoun

(obsolete) A sort of crowbar for digging.

Pitchernoun

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.

Pitchernoun

(botany) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.

Pitchernoun

One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.

Pitchernoun

A sort of crowbar for digging.

Pitchernoun

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.

Pitchernoun

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

Pitchernoun

(baseball) the person who does the pitching;

Pitchernoun

an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring

Pitchernoun

the quantity contained in a pitcher

Pitchernoun

the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit;

Pitcher

In baseball, the pitcher is the player who pitches the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw a walk. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the pitcher is assigned the number 1.