Synonyms of the word

hurler

• n. Agent noun of hurl; someone who hurls or throws.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s) The pitcher.
• n. (hurling) Someone who participates in the sport of hurling.

ballplayer

• n. A player of a ball game; especially a basketball, baseball, or football player.

pitcher

• n. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.
• n. (baseball, softball), the player who delivers the ball to the batter.
• n. (chiefly US, colloquial) The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter…
• n. (obsolete) A sort of crowbar for digging.
• n. A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water…
• n. (botany) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.

thrower

• n. Someone who throws.
• n. Something that throws.
• n. (archaic) One who throws or twists silk; a throwster.
• n. (archaic) One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
• n. (cricket) A bowler who illegally throws the ball instead of bowling it.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s) The pitcher.

twirler

• n. Something that twirls.
• n. Someone who twirls something.