1. A pitcher for holding water.
1538. Elyot, Dict., Vreeolus, a lytell water pitchar.
a. 1593. Marlowe, Ovid’s Eleg., I. x. 6. Such as Amimone through the drie fields strayed When on her head a water pitcher laied.
1816. Scott, Old Mort., xxxvii. The child set down her water-pitcher.
1846. Union Mag., I. 626. Carpet-brooms and water-pitchers.
1893. F. 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.
1846–50. A. Wood, Class-bk. Bot., 155. Order X. Sarraceniaceæ.—Water Pitchers.
1858. Baird, Cycl. Nat. Sci., Sarraceniaceæ, the Water Pitcher or Side-saddle family.
