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ˈwater-ˌpitcher
1. A pitcher for holding water.
1538Elyot Dict., Vrceolus, a lytell water pitchar. a1593Marlowe Ovid's Eleg. i. x. 6 Such as Amimone through the drie fields strayed When on her head a water pitcher laied. 1816Scott Old Mort. xxxvii, The child set down her water pitcher. 1846Union Mag. I. 626 Carpet-brooms and water-pitchers. 1893F. Adams New Egypt 96 Out from the village come a half-dozen women with the earthen water-pitchers balanced sidewise on their heads.
2. A book-name for pitcher-plants of the N.O. Sarraceniaceæ.
1846–50A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. 155 Order X. Sarraceniaceæ.—Water Pitchers. 1858Baird Cycl. Nat. Sci., Sarraceniaceæ, the Water Pitcher or Side-saddle family. |