Spitter

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  spitball \spit"ball`\, spit ball \spit" ball`\, n.
     1. Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a
        missile; -- a childish prank.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Baseball) A pitched ball in throwing which the pitcher


        grips the ball between two, or three, fingers on one side
        (which is made slippery, as by saliva) and the thumb on
        the other side, and delivers it so that it slips off the
        fingers with the least possible friction; -- also called
        {spitter}. When pitched directly overhand a spit ball
        darts downward, when pitched with the arm extended
        sidewise it darts down and out. The use of such a pitch is
        against the rules of professional baseball. [Cant] --
        {Spit baller}.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spitter \Spit"ter\, n. [See {Spit} to eject from the mouth.]
     One who ejects saliva from the mouth.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Spitter \Spit"ter\, n. [See {Spit} an iron prong.]
     1. One who puts meat on a spit.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Zool.) A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or
        become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  spitter
       n 1: a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth)
            [syn: {expectorator}]
       2: an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or
          Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he
          throws it [syn: {spitball}]