dipper vs pitcher

dipper

noun
  • A cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, for dipping into and ladling out liquids; a ladle or scoop. 

  • A Baptist or Dunker. 

  • A person employed in a tin plate works to coat steel plates in molten tin by dipping them. 

  • Any snack food intended to be dipped in sauce. 

  • The control in a vehicle that switches between high-beam and low-beam (i.e. dips the lights), especially when used to signal other vehicles. 

  • Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Cinclus that live near fast-flowing streams and feed along the bottom. 

  • A pickpocket. 

  • One who, or that which, dips (immerses something, or itself, into a liquid). 

  • A person employed to assist a bather in and out of the sea. 

pitcher

noun
  • 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. 

  • The player who delivers the ball to the batter. 

  • A drug dealer. 

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

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

  • A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant. 

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