moundsman
English
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[edit]moundsman (plural moundsmen)
- (baseball, slang) A pitcher.
- 2017, Brandon Isleib, Playing for a Winner, page 77:
- Managed and shortstopped by George Wright and full of league stalwarts—Joe Start, Paul Hines, and Jim O'rourke—they also had 1-year-old phenom Monte Ward as primary moundsman (teams now generally used multiple pitchers).
- (historical, surveying) A man employed to dig pits and erect mounds as reference markers for surveys.
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