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Pitching   /pˈɪtʃɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Pitching  n.  
1.
The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball.
2.
The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.
3.
(Hydraul. Eng.) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
Pitching piece (Carp.), the horizontal timber supporting the floor of a platform of a stairway, and against which the stringpieces of the sloping parts are supported.


verb
Pitch  v. t.  (past & past part. pitched; pres. part. pitching)  
1.
To cover over or smear with pitch.
2.
Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure. "The welkin pitched with sullen could."


Pitch  v. t.  
1.
To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.
2.
To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.
3.
To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.
4.
To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.
5.
To set or fix, as a price or value. (Obs.)
Pitched battle, a general battle; a battle in which the hostile forces have fixed positions; in distinction from a skirmish.
To pitch into, to attack; to assault; to abuse. (Slang)


Pitch  v. i.  
1.
To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp. "Laban with his brethren pitched in the Mount of Gilead."
2.
To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight. "The tree whereon they (the bees) pitch."
3.
To fix one's choise; with on or upon. "Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy."
4.
To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east.
Pitch and pay, an old aphorism which inculcates ready-money payment, or payment on delivery of goods.





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"Pitching" Quotes from Famous Books



... the pip, took to chewing tobacco and spitting in the waste-baskets, and raised proper —— with the pups. He came up to me one day with Uncle Harry looking out of his eyes and gave me a short biography of myself. I stood it as long as I could, and then I seemed to be pitching in an exciting ball game. My right hand shot out, and before I knew it Penton was lying down at my feet. When he got up he almost cried, and tried to tell me he was just fooling. I noticed that night that the guns were missing from the cage drawer, and fearing that Penton had them ...
— A Canadian Bankclerk • J. P. Buschlen
... confused, even under her enwrappings, and in stepping down her foot slipped. Reddy instantly scrambled up to her and caught her as she was pitching forward into the furrow. Yet in the struggle to keep his own foothold he was aware that she was assisting him, and although he had passed his arm around her waist, as if for her better security, it was only through HER firm grasp of his wrists that ...
— A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... seen was enough to fill any man with amazement. Out of the small square window which faced him a man had suddenly shot head-foremost, pitching on to his outstretched hands and then bounding to his feet. Within a foot of his heels came the head of a second one, who fell more heavily than the first, and yet recovered himself as quickly. The one wore the blue coat with silver facings of the king's guard; the second had the dark coat and ...
— The Refugees • Arthur Conan Doyle
... the tender father unconsciously bent his eyes on Eve, who leaned affectionately on his arm, steadying her light form against the pitching of the vessel. She understood his feelings better than he did himself, possibly, since, accustomed to his fondest care from childhood, she well knew that he seldom thought of others, or even of himself, while her own wants or safety appealed to his ...
— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper
... quite clear on that point. What I really want to know is the reason behind Simmonds's statement about Count Marigny's tale-pitching, as you ...
— Cynthia's Chauffeur • Louis Tracy


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