field pitcher

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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on a threshing crew, the person forking sheaves from the stook to the wagon for delivery to the threshing machine.

Quotations

1955

"Go by a field an' see alla them spikers an' field pitchers working without no pants . . ."

1963

. . . but luckily they gave us some field pitchers to help us load.